"This thorough, comprehensive, and competent investigation into Aquinas fills a lacuna in the history of soteriology."? Thomist "This thorough, comprehensive, and competent investigation into Aquinas fills a lacuna in the history of soteriology."? Thomist "For many of us coming of age as students of St. Thomas Aquinas, the first edition of Fr. Cessario's The Godly Image was that rare book that gave shape to our work and, in many ways, was defining of it. There was no book like it; it opened up a clear vista before which one stopped and simply gazed. There is still no book like it. Fr.

Cessario's magisterial grasp of the unity of St. Thomas' mind and heart is manifest on every page. He moves across St. Thomas' writings both systematic and scriptural, he moves through the major elements of sacra doctrina , and he shows the deeply integrated and integrating character of the thought of St. Thomas. This is not one more treatise on a topic in St. Thomas: Fr. Cessario shows how the substantive themes in St.

Thomas are all deeply and inextricably unified in St. Thomas' unparalleled grip on reality. Fr. Cessario does all of this with his usual clarity of mind and prose. Almost forty years later, it still opens up that clear and arresting vista."?John F. Boyle, University of St. Thomas "Essential, comprehensive, magisterial.

The Godly Image presents Fr. Cessario's penetrating synthesis of the soteriology of St. Thomas Aquinas which, within the unity of sacra doctrina, links inextricably with christology, sacramental theology, and the theology of grace, and at crucial junctures is sustained by a robust realist metaphysics. A matchless work of sustained theological argument."?Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia, OP, Vatican City "The re-publication in the Sacra Doctrina series of what has already become a classic presentation of Thomas Aquinas's theology of Christian satisfaction?until recently very hard to obtain?is to be warmly welcomed. A new introduction by the author enriches a perlucid presentation of what arguably is the acme of Aquinas's Christology?the personal transformation that Christ's salvific Passion and Death on the Cross has to offer to the world. Even more so than when it was originally published this clearly and compellingly written work is in the years to come indispensable reading for seminarians, priests, bishops, and all students of Thomas Aquinas.

"?Reinhard Hütter, author of Bound for Beatitude: A Thomistic Study in Eschatology and Ethics and Aquinas on Transubstantiation: The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.