Abstract

The translation here of Chenu's by now classic work is a slightly revised form of the original 1950 French edition, Introduction à l'étude de saint Thomas d'Aquin. The bibliography has been brought up to date and the translators have added two helpful indexes, one giving abbreviations used in the citations and a table of the Aquinian texts referred to, the other giving a list of Latin and Greek technical terms and the places where they occur and are defined or explained in Chenu's text. Chenu's book has been a handbook in the best sense of the word since the time of its first appearance and English-language students of St. Thomas can be extremely grateful for this translation.—E. A. R.