Anthony Kenny, Aquinas on Being.

Gordon-Taylor, Benjamin

(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002). x + 212 pp. ISBN 0-19-823847-9). 30.00 [pounds sterling]. Sir Anthony Kenny's distinguished career as a historian of philosophy is well known. In this book he revisits some of the ground he first covered as a young seminarian in Rome in the 1950s, in order to present the thesis that St Thomas's writings on being are not the consistent body of work they are often thought to be, and in consequence ought not to have had the influence they have. This affects other areas of concern to St Thomas, notably his thought on natural theology. Kenny takes the reader through the issues in an unsurprisingly clear and persuasive manner.