RECENSIONI / Francesco Binotto /
With Thomas Aquinas on Seeing God Katja Krause undoubtedly fills a gap within the scholarship of Thomas Aquinas’s account of beatific vision. Although several studies have dealt with this topic, most of them have overlooked Aquinas’s youthful position developed in his Commentary on the Sentences, focusing only on Summa theologiae, I, question 12.
The main purpose of this book is to offer a complete English translation of Aquinas’s Commentary on Peter Lombard’s Sentences, Book IV, distinction 49, question 7, articles 1-7. After an extensive historical as well as doctrinal introduction (p. 3-76), we can find the translation of the seven articles of distinction 49 (p. 79-222); at the very beginning of the translation of each article, Krause introduces the main issues addressed by Aquinas and the solutions offered by him. At the end of the volume Krause also offers a useful glossary of the technical terms (p. 241-254).
