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God Is in the Details (and So Is Thomas Aquinas) - How to Weaponize Aristotle for the Church and Still Be Canonized - cover
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God Is in the Details (and So Is Thomas Aquinas) - How to Weaponize Aristotle for the Church and Still Be Canonized

Sophia Blackwell

Narrator Benjamin Powell

Publisher: Cogito Ergo Nope

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God Is in the Details (and So Is Thomas Aquinas): How to Weaponize Aristotle for the Church and Still Be Canonized 
Ever wanted to read 3,000 pages of systematic theology written by a man who thought angel transportation was a valid academic subject? No? Great—this book is for you. 
This is not a polite introduction to Thomas Aquinas. This is a fully sarcastic, gloriously disrespectful roast of the chubbiest, holiest overachiever in Catholic history—a Dominican friar who took Aristotle’s metaphysics, added Latin, guilt, and divine purpose, and built the intellectual operating system of the Catholic Church. 
Inside, you’ll find: 
A breakdown of Aquinas’ Five Ways to Prove God Exists (spoiler: it's always God) 
An introduction to natural law, also known as “why everything you enjoy is probably a sin” 
His obsession with angel hierarchies, because theology needed a Pokémon-style ranking system 
The Summa Theologica, or what happens when you try to explain God using spreadsheet logic and footnote warfare 
Why Aquinas is still being cited in modern debates about abortion, bioethics, transubstantiation, and leggings 
From his flaming-stick celibacy defense to the fact that he nearly out-argued Augustine with a smile, Aquinas is the blueprint for theological overachievement—and this book is the spiritual field guide you didn’t know you needed. 
Perfect for: 
Recovering theology majors 
Catholic guilt survivors 
Philosophy nerds who love a good roast 
Anyone trying to understand how Aquinas still dominates moral debates despite being very, very dead 
Come for the metaphysics, stay for the footnote-based moral mic drops. 
Thomas Aquinas: he came, he theologized, he canonized himself through sheer force of logic.
Duration: about 1 hour (01:06:13)
Publishing date: 2025-04-17; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —