The Doctor's Quick Answers to Fundamental Questions
Pope St. Pius said that "in one year, a man can derive more profit from the works of St. Thomas Aquinas than from a lifetime studying the works of others." If you don’t have a year to study the more than 3,000 pages St. Thomas wrote, then turn to The One-Minute Aquinas, the fast-paced book that provides busy readers with simple, readable explanations of the truths that, for 750 years now, have caused the works of St. Thomas to be sought out by kings and popes, scholars and saints, as well as by ordinary souls like you — hungry to know God and to love him more and more. In this book’s lucid pages, author Kevin Vost gives you small, digestible portions of St. Thomas’s life-giving wisdom that you can enjoy one minute at a time. Tables and graphics will help you grasp and remember St. Thomas’s key ideas with a minimum of time and effort. Best of all, in The One-Minute Aquinas you’ll find quick, sure refutations of the countless relativistic, secular, and pseudoscientific ideas that are so influential in our culture today — and so shallow, contradictory, and wrong! Pope John Paul II declared that “the Church has been justified in consistently proposing St. Thomas as a master of thought and a model of the right way to do theology.” Now The One-Minute Aquinas enables even those with limited time and only a modest education to benefit from the wisdom of this great saint. Here, with minimal effort and among scores of other things, you’ll finally come to know and understand: Why God permits evil Heaven: what it is (and is not) Five simple proofs that God exists Why God became man Why Jesus let himself be tempted How you can grow quickly in virtue Why all souls need the sacraments Why Jesus let himself be crucified The causes of lust The natural law and the Commandments The soul, free will, sin, and damnation The angels, their ranks, and their powers How God governs (and refrains from governing) God’s power and its limits The Bible: why didn’t Jesus just write it himself? The surprising qualities of our resurrected bodies
... beautiful woman, but we can establish habitual behaviors that will move us
toward or away from greater strength or beauty, for “a disposition becomes a
habit, just as a boy becomes a man”48 As important as habits of health and
fitness may be, habits of the soul are of even greater importance As the apostle St
Paul put it: “Exercise thyself unto godliness For bodily exercise. 47 ST, I-II, Q 49,
art 1 48 Ibid, art 2 49 ST, I-II, Q 51, art 3 50 Nichomachean Ethics, 36 the One-
Minute AquinAs.
