“John Meinert argues convincingly that the Holy Spirit and his gifts are at the heart of Thomas Aquinas’s mature portrayal of the Christian life. Students of Aquinas often neglect the centrality of the gifts. Meinert’s book offers a timely corrective by showing how for Aquinas the gifts of the Holy Spirit are not the reserve of a chosen few, nor are they occasional aids that assist the Christian from time to time. Instead, for Thomas Aquinas, the gifts of the Holy Spirit render the Christian receptive to the Spirit’s animating action in all the events of daily life. Specialists will find Meinert’s book particularly helpful because he both details the different schools of Thomistic interpretation and draws on Aquinas’s treatise on grace to offer a convincing account of Thomas Aquinas’s mature theology.”

“In The Love of God Poured Out, John Meinert analyzes two very important concepts in Thomas Aquinas’s moral theology: grace and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. These topics have been vastly underappreciated and misunderstand in the past, and Meinert has all the scholarly skills that are necessary to both appreciate their important role in Aquinas’s thought and to understand them properly. He uses his excellent grasp of the deeper metaphysical issues, the Thomistic corpus as a whole (especially the biblical commentaries), and the secondary literature to show the centrality of grace and the Holy Spirit in the moral life. This profound and well-researched book will provide an excellent resource for those seeking a better understanding of Thomistic theology.”