Bound for Beatitude by IHE Fellow Reinhard Hutter is about Saint Thomas Aquinas’s theology of beatitude and the journey thereto. Consequently, the work’s topic is the meaning and purpose of human life embedded in the whole cosmos with a focus on the final end of human life, the attainment of perfect and everlasting happiness. This study is not an antiquarian exercise in the thought of some sundry medieval thinker, but an exercise of ressourcement in the philosophical and theological wisdom of one of the most profound theologians of the Catholic Church, one whom the Church has canonized, granted the title “Doctor of the Church,” and for a long time regarded as the common doctor. This book aims at the very heart of the philosophical and theological vision of Thomas Aquinas and simultaneously at the very heart of the vocation of being human and the goal of this journey–the attainment of beatitude.
