Thomas Aquinas As Spiritual Teacher

Author : Michael A. Dauphinais,Hofer Op Andrew,Roger W. Nutt
Publisher : Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University
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Release : 2023-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1932589880

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Thomas Aquinas as Spiritual Teacher by Michael A. Dauphinais,Hofer Op Andrew,Roger W. Nutt Pdf

St. Thomas Aquinas preaches in his sermon Puer Iesus, "Just as your father begot you bodily, your teacher begot you spiritually." St. Thomas himself has been blessed with prodigious fecundity through the centuries for his teaching in the Holy Spirit. Always, he leads us to think of the Blessed Trinity and all things from God's own view. With new insights into St. Thomas's spiritual teaching in its sources, context, breadth, wisdom, and influences, Thomas Aquinas as Spiritual Teacher presents chapters inspired by an international conference cosponsored by the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal at Ave Maria University and the Thomistic Institute of the Dominican House of Studies. The volume, like its conference, honors Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia, OP, adjunct secretary of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, for his dedication to the spiritual teaching of St. Thomas in several decades of service to the Church and the academy. Luis F. Cardinal Ladaria, SJ, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, contributed the volume's foreword.

Author : Robert Barron,Robert E. Barron
Publisher : Crossroad
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017409116

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Thomas Aquinas by Robert Barron,Robert E. Barron Pdf

Barron discusses not only the deep spirituality within Aquinas' theological writings, but also the saint's little known spiritual writings on prayer and more. Throughout, Barron applies these teachings to daily life. (Catholic)

Author : Jean-Pierre Torrell
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813213163

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Saint Thomas Aquinas, Volume 2 by Jean-Pierre Torrell Pdf

V. 1 The Person and His Work; v. 2 Spiritual Master.

Author : John Hittinger
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 535 pages
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Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443884433

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Thomas Aquinas by John Hittinger Pdf

Pope John Paul II bestowed upon St. Thomas Aquinas the accolade of Doctor Humanitatis, or “Doctor of Humanity,” because he was ready to affirm the good or value of culture wherever it is to be found. Thomas is a teacher for our time because of his “assertions on the dignity of the human person and the use of his reason.” (“Inter Munera Academiarum,” 1999). This collection of papers explores the various philosophical and theological aspects of the thought of both Thomas Aquinas and John Paul II pertaining to this theme of “teacher of humanity.” The topics discussed here include the political praxis of Karol Wojtyla; Gadamer on common sense; prudence and subsidiarity; embodied cognition; the knowledge of God; the commandment of love; Pope Francis on the Beatitudes; the new evangelization; Thomism and modern cosmology; and the challenges of transhumanism and gender ideology. The papers were presented at a conference held in Houston, Texas, USA, in 2013, cosponsored by the Center for Thomistic Studies, the John Paul II Forum, and the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas. This work will help to realize in its small way the hopes of Saint John Paul II concerning St. Thomas Aquinas: “It is to be hoped that now and in the future there will be those who continue to cultivate this great philosophical and theological tradition [of Aquinas] for the good of both the Church and humanity.” (Fides et ratio §74) Additionally, it will undoubtedly be of interest to all participants in the cultivation of the thought of Thomas Aquinas, John Paul II, and the dialogue between Thomism and the modern world.

Author : Jean-Pierre Torrell
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813218786

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Christ and Spirituality in St. Thomas Aquinas by Jean-Pierre Torrell Pdf

The studies in this volume investigate themes of particular spiritual relevance in Aquinas's theology: friendship, charity, prayer, configuration to Christ, priesthood, preaching.

Author : Walter Henry Principe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Philosophical theology
ISBN : UVA:X000952166

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Thomas Aquinas' Spirituality by Walter Henry Principe Pdf

Author : Jean-Pierre Torrell
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813214238

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Saint Thomas Aquinas: The person and his work by Jean-Pierre Torrell Pdf

Highly acclaimed as the most reliable, thorough, and accessible introduction to Thomas Aquinas, this first volume in Jean-Pierre Torrell's set of books on the great Dominican theologian has been revised to include a new appendix. The appendix consists of additions to the text, the catalog of Aquinas's works, and the chronology. Each item in the appendix is called out in the original part of the book with an asterisk in the margin. "This is the introduction to Thomas: presenting all the known facts of his life and work, tracing the themes of his writing out of his juvenilia, and following the influence of his thought in the years immediately after his death."--First Things "The most up-to-date biography available."--Choice

Author : Kevin Vost
Publisher : Sophia Institute Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781622828319

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12 Life Lessons from St. Thomas Aquinas by Kevin Vost Pdf

Here, Dr. Kevin Vost provides you with 12 essential life lessons, culled from the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas. Together these lessons will elevate your mind, enrich your spirit, and teach you how to participate fully in the universal vocation to holiness and happiness. Distilling Thomas's timeless and unparalleled spiritual wisdom, Vost shows you: The things you must believe, know, and desire in order to be saved (and how to thoroughly attend to these in your daily life) Why you must be religious and not merely spiritual How sloth in particular can blind you to the highest meaning of life (and which virtues supply the antidote) The surprising and dreadful effects of wrath in your life How to recognize injustices you may be committing dailyand how to train yourself to fight those impulses

Author : Roger Haight,Alfred Pach,Amanda Avila Kaminski
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781531502201

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On the Medieval Structure of Spirituality by Roger Haight,Alfred Pach,Amanda Avila Kaminski Pdf

If Thomas Aquinas was born in 1225, as is commonly thought, then he died before reaching the age of fifty after producing the single most influential systematic theology of the Western Christian tradition. He did this with a formula: He internalized the thought of Aristotle as it was being introduced into western Europe and translated into Latin, and he in turn “translated” Christianity into this Aristotelian language. One can use the principles of hermeneutics outlined in Retrieving the Spiritual Teaching of Jesus of this series to analyze what was going on as Aquinas went through some of the basic doctrines of the Church in his Summa Theologiae. He laid out their contents by answering an exhaustive series of questions and responding to each of them in intricate detail. The model for each question and answer was drawn directly from the pattern of learning at the University of Paris. Although systematic and abstract, it also enabled an extensive conversation with the tradition of classical theologians and his own contemporaries. This may seem quite distant from spiritual life on the ground, but the method produced a clear understanding of the structure of spiritual life in terms of its goal and the means of attaining it. Aquinas’s analysis of grace—how it enabled genuine Christian spirituality, empowered the virtues, and led to eternal life—constitutes a classic substructure of Western Christian spirituality that became all the more distinctive when Reformation spiritualities offered alternatives to it.

Author : Denys Turner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300188554

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Thomas Aquinas by Denys Turner Pdf

DIVA concise and illuminating introduction to the elusive Thomas Aquinas, the man and the saint/div

Author : Mark D. Jordan
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780823273805

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Teaching Bodies by Mark D. Jordan Pdf

In Teaching Bodies, leading scholar of Christian thought Mark D. Jordan offers an original reading of the Summa of Theology of Thomas Aquinas. Reading backward, Jordan interprets the main parts of the Summa, starting from the conclusion, to reveal how Thomas teaches morals by directing attention to the way God teaches morals, namely through embodied scenes: the incarnation, the gospels, and the sacraments. It is Thomas’s confidence in bodily scenes of instruction that explains the often overlooked structure of the middle part of the Summa, which begins and ends with Christian revisions of classical exhortations of the human body as a pathway to the best human life. Among other things, Jordan argues, this explains Thomas’s interest in the stages of law and the limits of virtue as the engine of human life. Rather than offer a synthesis of Thomistic ethics, Jordan insists that we read Thomas as theology to discover the unification of Christian wisdom in a pattern of ongoing moral formation. Jordan supplements his close readings of the Summa with reflections on Thomas’s place in the history of Christian moral teaching—and thus his relevance for teaching and writing in the present. What remains a puzzle is why Thomas chose to stage this incarnational moral teaching within the then-new genres of university disputation—the genres we think of as “Scholastic.” Yet here again the structure of the Summa provides an answer. In Jordan’s deft analysis, Thomas’s minimalist refusal to tell a new story except by juxtaposing selections from inherited philosophical and theological traditions is his way of opening room for God’s continuing narration in the development of the human soul. The task of writing theology, as Thomas understands it, is to open a path through the inherited languages of classical thought so that divine pedagogy can have its effect on the reader. As such, the task of the Summa, in Mark Jordan’s hands, is a crucial and powerful way to articulate Christian morals today.

Author : Josef Pieper
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681492186

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Guide to Thomas Aquinas by Josef Pieper Pdf

One of the great philosophers of the 20th Century, Josef Pieper, gives a penetrating introduction and guide to the life and works of perhaps the greatest philosopher ever, St. Thomas Aquinas. Pieper provides a biography of Aquinas, an overview of the 13th century he lived in, and a wonderful synthesis of his vast writings. Pieper shows how Aquinas reconciled the pragmatic thought of Aristotle with the Church, proving that realistic knowledge need not preclude belief in the spiritual realities of religion. According to Pieper, the marriage of faith and reason proposed by Aquinas in his great synthesis of a "theologically founded worldliness" was not merely one solution among many, but the great principle expressing the essence of the Christian West. Pieper reveals his extraordinary command of original sources and excellent secondary materials as he illuminates the thought of the great intellectual Doctor of the Church. "The purpose of these lectures is to sketch, against the background of his times and his life, a portrait of Thomas Aquinas as he truly concerns philosophical-minded persons today, not merely as a historical personage but as a thinker who has something to say to our own era. I earnestly hope that the speculative attitude which was Thomas' most salient trait as Christianity's "universal teacher" will emerge clearly and sharply from my exposition." - Josef Pieper

Author : Vivian Boland OP
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781441151483

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St Thomas Aquinas by Vivian Boland OP Pdf

It may be surprising that the thought of a medieval theologian still informs many areas of intellectual debate, but there continues to be lively interest in the work of Thomas Aquinas. He considers the most radical questions for our thinking about education: what is a human being? what does it mean to learn? what does it mean to teach? what does it mean to know, to understand, and to search for the truth? In this text, Vivian Boland offers a short biography of Aquinas focused on his personal experiences as a student and teacher. The book then provides a critical exposition of the texts in which Aquinas develops his views about education and includes a short account of the reception and influence of his thinking. Finally, it considers in some detail the most significant points of contact between Aquinas's educational thought and current concerns – his conviction about the goodness of the world, his holistic understanding of human experience and his contributions to virtue theory – and highlights the continuing relevance and influence of this work and thinking within educational philosophy today.

Author : John McClernon
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781681494296

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A Treasury of Quotations on the Spiritual Life by John McClernon Pdf

This is the fifth volume in this popular series of deluxe, small hardcover books that contain a collection of hundreds of direct quotes and short sayings of great saints, this book being from the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas. His words are arranged and classified by the virtues represented in the 20 decade Rosary. The Rosary mysteries-Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful, Glorious-provide us with a mosaic of virtues for the spiritual life, a ladder for advancing in holiness and in love of God and neighbor. The previous volumes in this series featured quotes from the writings of St. Therese of Lisieux, St. Francis de Sales, St. Catherine of Siena, and St. Teresa of Avila. These lovely little books provide a handy pocket-sized volume of hundreds of meditations for prayer and spiritual reading arranged by themes and virtues. They are ideal for anyone to carry with them to use for daily spiritual reading and inspiration.

Author : Jean-Pierre Torrell
Publisher : Catholic University of Amer Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 081320853X

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Saint Thomas Aquinas by Jean-Pierre Torrell Pdf

V. 1 The Person and His Work; v. 2 Spiritual Master.