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The presentation of the life and work of any great thinker is a
formidable task, even for a renowned scholar. This is all the more
the case when such a historical figure is a saint and mystic, such
as Friar Thomas Aquinas. In this volume, Fr. Jean-Pierre Torrell,
OP, masterfully takes up the strenuous task of presenting such a
biography, providing readers with a detailed, scholarly, and
profound account of the thirteenth-century theologian whose works
have not ceased to draw the attention of both friend and foe! In
this volume, Fr. Torrell, an internationally renowned expert on St.
Thomas, speaks to neophytes and experts alike: for those new to
Thomas's works, he paints an engaging human portrait of Friar
Thomas in his historical context; for specialists, he provides a
rigorous scholarly account of contemporary research concerning
Thomas's life and work. This new edition of Fr. Torrell's
widely-lauded text involved significant revision, expansion, and
bibliographical updates in light of the latest scholarship. The
Catholic University of America Press is pleased to present such an
eminent specialist's mature synthesis concerning Friar Thomas
Aquinas.
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
This work lays out the theoretical background to Saint Thomas
Aquinas' spirituality. It shows that his theology is clearly
oriented towards contemplation and is as deeply spiritual as it is
doctrinal. The text quotes often from Thomas' own texts and
presents a clear understanding of Aquinas' views on nature, the
person, human society, politics, and our ultimate end in communion
with God and one another. It makes apparent why the Catholic Church
thinks of Aquinas not only as a great Christian intellectual, but
also as a saint.
In this concise new volume by the acclaimed author of the biography
of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Jean-Pierre Torrell brings his expertise
to bear on Aquinas's ""Summa Theologiae"". Readers will turn to
this book again and again for a brief and popular introduction to
Aquinas's masterpiece - it's content; it's historical, literary,
and doctrinal settings; and it's lasting significance. Torrell
begins with an expert account of Aquinas's life and then turns his
attention to the overall structures and specific content of the
""Summa"". He considers the literary and doctrinal context of the
""Summa"", situating the work within the overall literary corpus of
the Angelic Doctor and examining Aquinas's Christian, Greek,
Jewish, and Arab sources. The second half of the book surveys the
history of the ""Summa's"" influence from Aquinas's death in 1274
through the twentieth century. Torrell traces the fate of Aquinas's
""Summa"" from its slow start, through the eventual emergence of
Thomism, and finally to its widespread acceptance. The nineteenth
and twentieth centuries witnessed the ultimate triumph of Aquinas's
work with the encyclical Aeternis patris and, in the wake of
Vatican II there has been renewed interest in its content and
method. This book is a masterpiece of concision and completeness.
It will be of considerable interest to readers seeking to
understand and appreciate the content, method, and impact of the
""Summa"" and the man who wrote it.
Christ and Spirituality in St. Thomas Aquinas: *Takes readers to
the heart of St. Thomas Aquinas as a theologian profoundly
concerned with the spiritual life*St. Thomas Aquinas's holiness did
not flower alongside his endeavor as a theologian or in isolation
from it. Rather, it was a fruit of his practice of theology and the
asceticism proper to magnanimous souls who dare to examine the
mystery of God. Theological affectivity -- charity present through
a living faith -- is necessary for an authentic practice of
theology. The experience of God, which is essential to the mystical
life, is at the heart of Aquinas's study and life. The studies in
this volume investigate themes of particular spiritual relevance in
Aquinas's theology: friendship, charity, prayer, configuration to
Christ, priesthood, preaching. They also reveal Aquinas's entire
approach to theology to be guided by the desire to grow spiritually
through theologizing. The Angelic Doctor here appears as a
Dominican friar whose theology flows from his faith and prayer.
Desiring to underscore the Trinitarian character of the Christian
life, Aquinas pays careful attention to the human being as created
in the image of God. In this light, Aquinas presents Christ as the
Exemplar after which we are fashioned and as the model we are to
imitate. Christ thus appears in the Summa not only as the way by
which the human being must travel toward God but also as the head
who leads the rational creature's return to the Creator.
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