Aquinas, Education and the East

A confluence of scholarly interest has resulted in a revival of Thomistic scholarship across the world. Several areas in the investigation of St. Thomas Aquinas, however, remain under-explored. This volume contributes to two of these neglected areas. First, the volume evaluates the contemporary relevance of St. Thomas's views for the philosophy and practice of education. The second area explored involves the intersections of the Angelic Doctor's thought and the numerous cultures and intellectual traditions of the East. Contributors to this section examine the reception, creative appropriation, and various points of convergence between St. Thomas and the East.

This volume evaluates the contemporary relevance of St. Thomas's views for the philosophy and practice of education. It also examines the intersections of the Angelic Doctor's thought and the numerous cultures and intellectual traditions of the East.

First book-length treatment on Thomas Aquinas' influence on the contemporary practice of education

PART I. Secularizations. Introduction: Secularization and its Discontents, M. Sharpe, D. Nickelson.- Disenchantments of secularism: the West and India, P. Bilimoria.- Locke, secularism and the justice of the secular solution: towards a self-reflective transcending of secular-self understanding, P.A. Quadrio.- PART II. Church and State.- Marx and the Christian logic of the secular state, R. Boer.- Spirit matters: Life after secularism and religion? J. Rossouw.- PART III. Radical Orthodoxy.- Counter-secularism: parsing the theological cure for our modern malady, Dylan Nickelson.- 'In the Beginning Was...the Story'? On Secularisation, Narrative, and Nominalisms, M. Sharpe.- PART IV. New Atheism and the Post-secular Theoretical Turn.- Enjoy your Enlightenment! New Atheism, fanaticism and the joys of other people's illusions, B. Cooke.- Against fundamentalism: The silence of the Divine in the work of Karen Armstrong, P. Brown.- Secularism stuck in the End-Times: From Alexandre Kojève to the recent Messianic Turn, R. Jeffs.- PART V. The Secular Age or Post-secularism.- Charles Taylor's search for transcendence: mystery, suffering, violence, J. Rundell.- Towards post-secular Enlightenment, W. Hudson.