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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.
But who do you say that I am?"" asks Jesus at the decisive turning
point in the Gospel. Simon Peter answers correctly at first but is
soon corrected when he protests the revelation of the Cross.
Christians in every age are called to confess the right faith in
Jesus, who suffered, died, and rose for our salvation. Our own
period is beset by a crisis of faith in Jesus, which has had
manifold deleterious effects on our lives, our Christian
communities, and our world. For the sake of addressing this crisis,
the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal at Ave Maria University
and the Thomistic Institute of the Pontifical Faculty at the
Dominican House of Studies cosponsored an international conference
that took place at Ave Maria University under the title Thomas
Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology. Beginning with a gripping
foreword by Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia, OP, of the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, this volume gathers
together several of the excellent conference presentations given by
scholars working in North America, South America, Europe, and
Western Asia. These studies consider both formulations of who
Christ is and of how we are under his judgement. With help from
Thomas Aquinas and the Thomistic tradition, this work engages
today's crisis of Christology as seen in multiple theological
topics and offers models of faith to answer Jesus' question for
ourselves, ""But who do you say that I am?
Scholars have often been quick to acknowledge Thomas Aquinas's
distinctive retrieval of Aristotle's Greek philosophical heritage.
Often lagging, however, has been a proper appreciation of both his
originality and indebtedness in appropriating the great theological
insights of the Greek Fathers of the Church. In a similar way to
his integration of the Aristotelian philosophical corpus, Aquinas
successfully interwove the often newly received and translated
Greek patristic sources into a thirteenth-century theological
framework, one dominated by the Latin Fathers. His use of the Greek
Fathers definitively shaped his exposition of sacra doctrina in the
fundamental areas of God and creation, Trinitarian theology, the
moral life, and Christ and the Sacraments. For the sake of filling
this lacuna and of piquing scholarly interest in Aquinas's relation
to the Fathers of the Christian East, the Aquinas Center for
Theological Renewal at Ave Maria University and the Thomistic
Institute of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at
the Dominican House of Studies co-sponsored an international
gathering of scholars that took place at Ave Maria University under
the title Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers. Sensitive to the
commonalities and the differences between Aquinas and the Greek
Fathers, the essays in this volume have sprung from the theme of
this conference and offer a harvest of some of the conference's
fruits. At long last, scholars have a rich volume of diverse,
penetrating essays that both underscore Aquinas's unique standing
among the Latin scholastics in relationship to the Greek Fathers
and point the way toward avenues of further study.
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