Michael Trofimovich

All good!

Revisado: 11-25-19

Good chapter divisions. The Chapters and books are properly divided in the index.

Good voice. Quite comforting and not Hip or High pitched. No background music, which is nice to me.

Good translation. A translation which is a good balance of literal, and easy to understand.

All good.

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A great overview, but with constraining bias

Revisado: 10-01-19

The author seemed to capture the general mind of the modern muslim and the modern muslim beliefs, which is invaluable in understanding and outreach to the Islamic community. This is what I bought the book for, so for me personally, it was a home run. The book is written in Q&A form, answering the questions the scholar finds as the most frequent from the public. But one of example of the constraining bias was with the Q&A format. The questions sounded like the vague FAQ of progressive college freshmen, and not deeply convicted or mature people of any other faith or viewpoint.

The author, well suited for the freshmen audience, only asked himself softball questions with the implication that progressive ideals were ultimately the good that Islam needed to achieve, a view, that historical Islam would find laughable and insulting. The author was caught between his progressive ideals, and his islamic ideals, and ultimately mashed them together to reveal a clear bias in how He sees the muslim world. The author did not make a good defence for the sake of the conservative muslim, who was not well-represented in this work.

The author, when comparing and contrasting Islam with other religions, gave a good idea of what a modern muslim may think of Christianity, but did not represent modern Christianity accurately. So the author contrasted his modern, progressive view of Islam the often a conservative view of Christianity. When defending Islam, the author cited the quran, but failed to cite the Bible in any groundings of what He considered Christianity. Therefore, many of the comparisons lay flat, either in a comparison with the modern general view of both, or in a comparison of the Holy books.

I found myself agreeing with the authors views of reformed progressive Islam, which he clearly prefered, and I found myself understanding the thinking of a typical modern muslim. But for deep scholarly research about many aspects of conservative Islam, or the the idea of Islam being the one true religion and muslim apologetics, you could see this book as an overview, and then look elsewhere.

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The narrator and the content is stunning

Revisado: 09-17-19

Wow, the narrator does a great job, and what a book. This book struck a real fear into me. Almost make me puke in helpless terror.

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Shows the Character and Philosophy of Aquinas

Revisado: 09-17-19

Chesterton does a great job revealing Aquinas' character as a man of God, and as a Man purposefully immersed in His work. Chesterton also does a good analysis on the immediate AND far reaching effect of the heavyweight philosopher.

This book does not reveal the theology of Aquinas, as said so by Chesterton himself. Those who read this book for only the dogma and theology of Aquinas will be let down. But those who can attach the philosophy of Aquinas to the theology of the time will not be disappointed.

Chestertons' added opinions are helpful and informative when it comes to understanding Aquinas, though when Chesterton grazes Reformed and Augustinian theology, he certainly shows an understandable ignorance, and misinforms the reader about the Augustinian and Reformed positions. I'm sure if Chesterton had the same passion for Augustine or Calvin, he would be more informed. I don't hold it against Chesterton though, those theologians are clearly not Chesterton's field of study.

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