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• W4285215330 abstract "Reviewed by: Thomas Aquinas: A Historical, Theological, and Environmental Portrait by Donald S. Prudlo Ann W. Astell Thomas Aquinas: A Historical, Theological, and Environmental Portrait. By Donald S. Prudlo. New York: Paulist, 2020. Pp. 420. $39.95 (paper). ISBN 978-0-8091-5386-2. Donald Prudlo's portrait of Tommaso d'Aquino (1224/6-74) offers a moving account of the great saint and theologian, presenting him as a human being who lived in particular historical, institutional, and geographic circumstances, who had personal relationships with others, lived out of a recognizable spirituality, and possessed a distinctive personality. That personality included natural strengths and weaknesses, both of which fitted Thomas for his unique vocation, mission, and striving for sanctity. Prudlo's treatment of Thomas's theology will not satisfy serious students, but the book's lively sketch of the life and times of this Dominican thinker (5) and its sustained meditation on the interrelationship between scholarship and sainthood (ibid.) make it a valuable companion and complement to the study of Thomas's own writings. The Introduction announces Prudlo's aim to write a biography of Thomas Aquinas that occupies a middle space between popular (sometimes uncritically hagiographic) and … exceptionally academic biographies, such as those by Simon Tugwell, Jean-Pierre Torrell, and James Weisheipl (10). Prudlo's attempt to occupy of a virtuous middle ground between these two extremes also implies (and at times explicitly levels) criticism against them. Inspired in part by the method used by Augustine Thompson, O.P., in his 2012 new biography of Saint Francis of Assisi, Prudlo carefully distinguishes the historical sources (William of Tocco, Bernard Gui, Pietro Calò, Tolomeo of Lucca, the canonization hearings, and the Vitae fratrum) for the various narrated episodes in Thomas's life (usefully enumerated in a chart in Appendix B). Prudlo generally acknowledges a historical basis for these tales of Thomas, but strips them of hagiographic additions and interprets them critically. For example, he readily admits that Thomas as a toddler probably mouthed a piece of paper on which Ave Maria was written, but he declines to interpret the episode (as Thomas's hagiographers did) as portending Thomas's Marian devotion (36). More controversially, he questions whether Thomas's observable, frequent, mental withdrawal from social converse into states of abstraction was properly lauded by his hagiographers as virtuous. Thomas had faults, often masked by his early admirers as virtues, Prudlo insists (12). Prudlo diagnoses these putative faults as symptomatic of a clinically defined condition. Although he rejects Rudolph Bell's ascription of anorexia nervosa to medieval women mystics as a misguided anachronism (271), he does not hesitate to propose that Thomas suffered interpersonally (as many high-functioning academics do) under the limitations of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) (270-85). Prudlo modestly delays presenting his hypothesis about Thomas's personality until late in the book, so that it does not detract from, but actually enhances, his overarching portrait of Thomas as a truly remarkable human being whose nature was not destroyed, but perfected by grace, and who successfully found a way to negotiate the narrow path to a life of holiness that [End Page 153] all around him recognized and that was, at length, confirmed by the universal church (285). Although Prudlo insists, This will be no hagiography (5), his down-to-earth portrait of Thomas becomes, in the end, the story of a saint worthy of a double canonization for the holiness of his life and for the truth he taught. Prudlo's critique of hagiography is unequally matched by his criticism of exceptionally academic biographies. Many of the fine studies of St. Thomas have a particular downside, according to Prudlo, because they are really more about Thomism than about Thomas, and simply use a chronological framework to drill into his thought (10). The assertion rings true, but this book supplies a genuine feel for Thomas's thirteenth-century context (ibid.) at the cost of giving only a relatively superficial and somewhat repetitive account of his theology, which Prudlo broadly characterizes as rational, humanist, and incarnational (because of Master Thomas's doctrine of human nature's substantial unicity as a hylomorphic composite of body and soul). This shorthand treatment..." @default.
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