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I am sometimes asked what book or books I would recommend as an introduction to the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas for the intelligent non-specialist.<\/p>\n

Here is my advice. You should first read Ralph McInerny\u2019s entry on St. Thomas in the <\/a>Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy<\/a><\/em>. Then you can move on to these three books, which are some of my favorites:<\/span><\/p>\n

Ralph McInerny, <\/a>A First Glance at Thomas Aquinas: A Guide for Peeping Thomists<\/a><\/em> (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990)<\/a><\/p>\n

Brian Davies, O.P., The Thought of Thomas Aquinas (Oxford: Clarendon, 1992)<\/a><\/p>\n

Edward Feser, <\/a>Aquinas: A Beginner\u2019s Guide<\/a><\/em> (Oxford: Oneworld\u00a0Publications, 2009)<\/a><\/p>\n

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