The Mystery of Christ Our Savior
The Person, Life, and Redemption of Jesus According to St. Thomas Aquinas
Who is Jesus Christ – and why do His life, suffering, and glory matter so profoundly for your salvation?
For centuries, the work of St. Thomas Aquinas has endowed the Church with one of her most luminous and unified visions of Christ, not as an abstract figure of debate but as the living Word made flesh, whose every action reveals God’s saving love. Yet today, many Catholics find Aquinas intimidating and inaccessible.
In this masterful, remarkably clear work, Fr. Mauro Gagliardi opens the heart of Aquinas’s Christology and soteriology to modern readers, drawing directly from the Summa Theologiae and presenting its riches in a form that is faithful, readable, and spiritually fruitful. Written originally for students, priests, and catechists, this book now offers all English-speaking readers a rare opportunity to access Aquinas’s thought without requiring specialized philosophical training or endless time.
Against a backdrop of theologians who fragmented Christ with their competing theories, Aquinas presents a harmonious vision of who Christ is – why He lived as He did, why He suffered, and how His Passion, Resurrection, and glorification truly save. Fr. Gagliardi guides you step-by-step through this vision, showing how Christology and salvation belong together and how this unity safeguards the Faith from confusion and error.
In these pages, you’ll discover:
- Why Aquinas insists that every perfection belongs to Christ and how this truth transforms the way we understand His humanity, suffering, and glory
- How Christ’s Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension form a single saving mystery, not isolated events competing for emphasis
- What it means to say Christ is the Head of the Mystical Body and how His grace flows to you through the Church
- Why Aquinas defends Christ’s full humanity as fiercely as His divinity against both ancient and modern misunderstandings
- How Christ saves not only by dying but also by living, teaching, suffering, rising, and reigning – and why this matters for prayer, worship, and daily Christian life
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How the use of a sound metaphysics helps us understand the mystery of Christ and His salvation
Throughout, Fr. Gagliardi clarifies difficult concepts, anticipates modern objections, and highlights Aquinas’s symbolic and mystical insights – always with an eye toward contemplation, conversion, and fidelity to revelation.
This is not a textbook for specialists. It is a gateway for all into a deeper knowledge of Christ, a firmer grasp of Catholic doctrine, and a more confident, joyful faith.
Endorsements
“In The Mystery of Christ Our Savior, the reader encounters St. Thomas Aquinas through an author who is faithful to the texts and thought of the Angelic Doctor. This three-in-one volume confirms that Fr Gagliardi is a reliable guide for anyone who desires to study the Christology and soteriology of St. Thomas and its related Mariology.”
Anthony Akinwale, O.P., S.T.M.
Professor of Systematic Theology and Thomistic Philosophy, Augustine University, Nigeria
“Through this extraordinary book, Mauro Gagliardi performs an act of intellectual charity toward students of theology and philosophy and, more broadly, toward anyone interested in delving deeper into the mystery of Jesus Christ. Drawing on his vast philosophical and theological expertise, Professor Gagliardi offers us a concise and very profound exposition of Aquinas’s thought on Christ, the Son of God, and His work of universal salvation. At the same time, the author offers important observations and actualizations to situate St. Thomas’s Christology in the present and for the future of the Church. I highly recommend studying this book for both academic and personal theological formation.”
Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller
Theologian; Author; Former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
“Fr. Gagliardi has rendered a great service to the many young theology students of various confessions who seek an entry way into a classical, Thomistic theological understanding of Christ. The fruit of his long experience as a teacher, this collection opens up the text of the Summa Theologiae and renders Aquinas’s technical Christological language intelligible to theological beginners.”
Fr. Bernhard Blankenhorn
Professor of Dogmatic Theology, University of Fribourg
“Father Mauro Gagliardi’s theological work embodies the dynamic, Christocentric orthodoxy that the Second Vatican Council intended to foster. His explanation of St. Thomas Aquinas’s Christology will nourish the soul and heart as well as the mind.”
George Weigel
Distinguished Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center
“Father Gagliardi, author of a rich dogmatics of his own, here provides an exposition and commentary on St. Thomas’s Christological treatise in questions 1–59 of the Tertia Pars. This work is succinct, profound, instructive, and readable. More than this, it is necessary. Students and seminarians have been separated from the wisdom of St. Thomas’s Christology for far too long. This book provides the needed path of entry for teaching the Tertia Pars to students who lack the scholastic background to tackle it in an unmediated way.”
Matthew Levering
James N. Jr. and Mary D. Perry Chair of Theology, Mundelein Seminary
“Putting Jesus Christus again at the center of the life of the Church, of each person, and of each nation will ultimately bring the solution for the main human problems. Fr. Mauro Gagliardi’s masterful theological work The Mystery of Christ Our Savior is a luminous contribution for the aim to bring Christ to the world, and is much needed in our time.”
Most Reverend Athanasius Schneider
Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana
“We have come to expect rigorous thinking and sophisticated theology from Fr. Mauro Gagliardi. This volume continues in that distinguished tradition. Readers will discover an accessible and orderly exposition of Aquinas’s Christology as found in the Summa Theologiae. Fr. Gagliardi brings to vivid life the profound reflections about Jesus found in the Angelic Doctor. All who wish to enter more deeply into the mystery of the Divine Redeemer will find here an abundant feast for theological nourishment.”
Msgr. Thomas G. Guarino
Professor of Systematic Theology, Seton Hall University
“This volume serves as a conceptually sound and theologically profound introduction and guide to the Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae. By its scope and probity, it demonstrates both the radiant extensiveness and the perennial significance of Aquinas’s Christological thought. A clear and very helpful guide!”
Thomas Joseph White, O.P.
Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome
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