Thinking through Revelation

"Thinking through Revelation would be worth reading if all it did was to offer its stimulating and erudite comparison of revelation and reason in three great medieval thinkers—Jewish, Christian, and Muslim. Valuable though this comparison is Dobie offers more. By means of a lengthy examination of Aquinas's understanding of intellection, truth, and revelation, he argues that Aquinas in every case advocates an embodied human knowing that participates in God's knowledge, above all in and through the embodied wisdom of the incarnate Word. No topic is more important for the Church today than the doctrine of divine revelation. May this rich book inspire a new generation of theological reflection on the reality of revealed knowledge!"—Matthew Levering, James N. and Mary D. Perry Jr. Chair of Theology, Mundelein Seminary

"Dobie succeeded in providing an illuminating account of medieval debates that address fundamental epistemological questions that continue to influence the development and the interactions that the theistic religions have within themselves, among them, and with other worldviews in our contemporary context. For those interested in intellectual history, ethics of belief, and apologetics, there is much to be found in this work that can launch further research."—Reviews in Religion and Theology

"In this new book, [Robert Dobie] investigates the tension between knowledge by human reasoning and knowledge from revelation in three of the greatest medieval thinkers: Ibn Rushd or Averroes, Moses Maimonides, and Thomas Aquinas. This is a huge task but he accomplishes it in a fluent style, with attention to detail and nuance."—European Journal for the Study of Thomas Aquinas

"This is an original and fresh methodological perspective on the perennial debate about the relationship between revelation and philosophy, and it yields a significant advance in our understanding of medieval thought....Dobie's exegesis is elaborate and clear, ranging over a sample of relevant Thomistic texts and grounded in thorough familiarity with reliable secondary literature. The study is an outstanding resource for graduate-level courses and specialists in both medieval philosophy."—Sixteenth Century Journal