One-Minute Aquinas: The Doctor's Quick Answers to Fundamental Questions

Kevin Vost

Feb 2014 · Sophia Institute Press

About this ebook

 Pope St. Pius said that "in one year, a man can derive more profit from the works of St. Thomas Aquinas than from a lifetime studying the works of others."

If you don’t have a year to study the more than 3,000 pages St. Thomas wrote, then turn to The One-Minute Aquinas, the fast-paced book that provides busy readers with simple, readable explanations of the truths that, for 750 years now, have caused the works of St. Thomas to be sought out by kings and popes, scholars and saints, as well as by ordinary souls like you — hungry to know God and to love him more and more.

In this book’s lucid pages, author Kevin Vost gives you small, digestible portions of St. Thomas’s life-giving wisdom that you can enjoy one minute at a time. Tables and graphics will help you grasp and remember St. Thomas’s key ideas with a minimum of time and effort.

Best of all, in The One-Minute Aquinas you’ll find quick, sure refutations of the countless relativistic, secular, and pseudoscientific ideas that are so influential in our culture today — and so shallow, contradictory, and wrong!

Pope John Paul II declared that “the Church has been justified in consistently proposing St. Thomas as a master of thought and a model of the right way to do theology.” Now The One-Minute Aquinas enables even those with limited time and only a modest education to benefit from the wisdom of this great saint.

Here, with minimal effort and among scores of other things, you’ll finally come to know and understand:

Why God permits evil

Heaven: what it is (and is not)

Five simple proofs that God exists

Why God became man

Why Jesus let himself be tempted

How you can grow quickly in virtue

Why all souls need the sacraments

Why Jesus let himself be crucified

The causes of lust

The natural law and the Commandments

The soul, free will, sin, and damnation

The angels, their ranks, and their powers

How God governs (and refrains from governing)

God’s power and its limits

The Bible: why didn’t Jesus just write it himself?

The surprising qualities of our resurrected bodies

About the author

Kevin Vost, Psy.D. (b. 1961) has taught psychology at the University of Illinois at Springfield, Lincoln Land Community College, MacMurray College, and at Aquinas College in Nashville, Tennessee. A former powerlifter and Highland Games Heavy Events competitor, Dr. Vost has also served as a weightlifting instructor, fitness writer for the International Association of Resistance Trainers, Research Review Committee Member for American Mensa (the high IQ society), lector for St. Agnes Catholic Church, and fast food fries and drink man (a few decades back). His voice (and sometimes the rest of him) travel the globe sharing themes of faith, philosophy, and fitness on radio, television, and in live presentations.

Dr. Vost's latest book is Memorize the Reasons! Defending the Faith with the Catholic Art of Memory (Catholic Answers Press, 2013). Other recent books include Three Irish Saints: A Guide to Finding Your Spiritual Style (TAN, 2012), St. Albert the Great: Champion of Faith and Reason (TAN, 2011) and with the help of co-authors Shane Kapler, Peggy Bowes, and some special guests including author and Son Rise Morning Show producer Matt Swaim -- Tending the Temple: 365 Days of Spiritual and Physical Devotions (Bezalel Books, 2011). On the plate for Spring, 2014 is The One-Minute Aquinas: How to Lead a Happy Life on Earth--And Then Go to Heaven! Deep Wisdom and Concise Advice From the Smartest Man in History,St. Thomas Aquinas (Sophia Institute Press). 

A self-styled Aristotelian/Stoic/Albertine/Thomist, this author lives with his wife, two sons, and their puppy Lily (who will make her literary debut in a cameo appearance in The One-Minute Aquinas).