THE AMERICAN CHURCH REVIEW. VOL. XXV. The Church Press: M. H. MALLORY & CO., PUBLISHERS. HARTFORD, CONN., CHURCHMAN BUILDING: LONDON, RIVINGTONS. V. THE SPIRITUAL ESSENCE OF CHRISTIANITY, VI. CONFLICTS OF CHURCH AND STATE, VII. HOW TO TREAT MODERN SCEPTICISM, IV. THE SPIRITUAL ESSENCE OF CHRISTIANITY, V. LOSSING'S LIFE OF GENERAL SCHUYLER, III. REASON, AND THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY, IV. PRESBYTERIANISM AND EPISCOPACY IN SCOTLAND, V. PHILOSOPHY OF THE EUCHARIST, The Life and Labors of St. Thomas of Aquin. By the Very Rev. Roger Bede Vaughan, O.S.B., Cathedral Prior of St. Michael's, Hereford. In two vols. 8vo, pp. xxii.-808, xiv.-928. Longmans & Co., London. 1871. With two indexes, pp..36 and 51. THIS HIS is the first appearance in English of a life of the great doctor of the middle ages, usually styled the Angel, because he was esteemed the most exalted of the scholastic hierarchy. If he had been an archangel, no higher position, perhaps, could have been assigned him, and not loftier veneration lavished on him, by devotees of the modern Church of Italy. For Aquinas was not a Romanist only, but a native-born Italian, and was also of no mean lineage, having veins into which genuine aristocratic blood had found its way. Still, it would be of small service to ordinary readers to look at him from a scholastic point of observation only, and show what he was as a profound theologian, or a wondrous general scholar. 'Also called Doctor Universalis, because the Pope, in solemn conclave, made him a doctor of the highest kind, -a doctor of the Church Universal. -Vaughan, ii. 145. xcvi.-1 |