Table of Contents

Gilles Emery, O.P.: Foreword
Abbreviations & Editions of Works of St. Thomas Aquinas
Other Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: The Trinity and the Dispensation of Salvation
1: The Divine Missions: From the Trinity, To the Trinity
2: Divine Missions: Invisible and Visible
Part II: Jesus Christ, the Word of the Father Sent in the Flesh
3: Why the Son Became Incarnate
4: The Hypostatic Union and the Trinity
Part III: Christ and the Holy Spirit
5: Like Splendor Flowing from the Sun: The Holy Spirit and Christ's Grace
6: The Holy Spirit and Christ's Human Knowledge
7: Christ's Action and the Holy Spirit
8: Christ Gives the Holy Spirit
Conclusion
Bibliography

About the Author

Dominic Legge, O.P., is Assistant Professor in the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies and Assistant Director at the Thomistic Institute.

Reviews

Important clarifications like this from Legge abound, truly opening up Aquinas' trinitarian richness to contribute to today's rediscovery.
*Nathan Adams, McGill University, Religious Studies Review*

One does not need to adopt Aquinas's sacramentology or theories of merit in order to appreciate and learn from such breathtaking theological insights. This book puts us on the right track.
*Ryan M. McGraw, Theology and History*

As it deals with a demanding topic, commonly addressed as a mystery of faith that is, as something that could not be known had God not decided to reveal it, Legge's volume is a demanding book. Although formidable, Legge's treatment of the Angelic Doctor's Trinitarian Christology is highly rewarding for any reader interested in the core features of Christianity, and the theological rationale beyond Christian faith. Legge shows convincingly how Aquinas spells out the intrinsic relation between the doctrine of the Holy Trinity, and the doctrine of the Incarnation, as the fundamentals of a Christian account of the origin and purpose of the existence of the universe.
*Reading Religion*

This work is of immense importance.
*Editor, Catholic Medical Quarterly*

In focusing on the trinitarian origin, ratio and shape of the incarnation and of the salvation brought by Christ, however, Legge has put all students of Aquinas, and, indeed, all contemporary students of Christ himself, in his debt. This is a dense but lucid work that ranges across all the major theological opera of Aquinas, as well as a good number of his biblical commentaries and theolgical opuscula. It is attentive to both the consistency and development in Aquinas's thinking about Christ. Its nuanced interpretation of Aquinas's Christology brings out the depth, subtlety and biblical grounding of Aquinas's conception... One may hope that this book contributes in its own way to the renewal of Christology and soteriology, East and West.
*John P. Yocum, International Journal of Systematic Theology*

This is an excellent book! ... His exhaustive knowledge and use of the primary sources is admirable, boarding on wonderment. This book establishes Legge as a premier theologian within the Dominican Thomistic tradition. ... Legge's book should be required reading for every graduate student of theology.
*Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, The Journal of Theological Studies*