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A major new cache of unpublished
Chesterton writings on St. Thomas
Aquinas has been published in the last
issue of The Chesterton Review.
Among the Chestertonian memorabilia
acquired by the Institute in the last
few years for its Oxford library, Aidan
Mackey discovered several pages that
turned out to be on Aquinas, but were
not either a distinct article or a draft
of the book which Chesterton published
on the same subject in 1933. That book
had been praised by the great French
Thomist, Etienne Gilson, in the
following terms: "1 consider it as being
without possible comparison the best
book ever written on St. Thomas. Nothing
short of genius can account for such an
achievement." Yet it had been written in
the space of a few weeks, with a minimum
of research. Until now, apart from a
brief article in The Spectator, it was
thought that Chesterton had written
nothing else on Aquinas. The new
writings appear in The Chesterton
Review (Spring and Summer 2004) with
commentary and notes by Dr. Mark
Armitage. This discovery will be of
enormous interest to the many readers of
Chesterton around the world, whose
numbers are growing as more and more of
his books are reprinted, as well as a to
students of St. Thomas Aquinas.
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