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McCabe is the godfather of all of those who read Aquinas through the eyes of Wittgenstein. The essays collected here -- covering everything from the doctrine of God to class struggle and Christian love -- are deceptively user-friendly. McCabe writes in an engaging and conversational style, but once the reader is engaged he or she will find ideas that bear repeated pondering. I highly recommend this book especially for those who think Aquinas is a boring and "safe" thinker.

The book is a collection of articles by Herbert McCabe, one of the liveliest thinkers of English Christianity. It covers an enormous range of topics and all with McCabe's characteristic humour and elegantly simple presentation of deep topics. His essays on God, creation and evil with which the book begins, his debates with Maurice Wiles on the Incarnation and P. J. Fitzpatrick on the Eucharist and the beautiful extended sermon on hope are some of the finest examples of theology today.

Herbert McCabe writes great theology chock-full-o-profundity and surprisingly comprehensible: loftier then clowns like Swinburne and much more readable. There were actually times when I was laughing out loud; and one often laughs at theology rather than with it. In particular, the way he deals with the problem of evil, Chapter II I believe, is wonderful as he presents himself as God's barrister. Good read, would definitly reccomend to anyone studying or investigating theology.

Alexander J. Urbelis

That would have been a nice subtitle. This crazy old monk gets his think on like nobody's business. It's a great read that displays why orthodoxy has stood the test of time against the more trendy fashion waves of manufactured dissent. Not that I am opposed to dissent, but in terms of theology when it is laid out for you via liberalism then blah.

This book should be banned. Philosophers are not supposed to recognize mystery for what it "is". By doing so McCabe endangers the complaisance of the reader. This is unsupportable.