Christ and Spirituality in St. Thomas Aquinas

Christ and Spirituality in St. Thomas Aquinas
Author: Jean-Pierre Torrell
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2011-11-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0813218780

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

Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas
Author: Robert Barron
Publisher: Word on Fire Academic
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781943243792

Thomas Aquinas is widely considered the greatest and most influential of Catholic theologians. Yet too often his insights into the nature of God and the meaning of life are seen as somehow cold, impersonal, and divorced from spirituality. In this award-winning book, Bishop Robert Barron shows how Aquinas' profound understanding of the Christian mystical life animates and helps explain his writings on Jesus Christ, creation, God's "strange" nature, and the human call to ecstasy. "When one interprets Thomas merely as a rationalist philosopher or theologian, one misses the burning heart of everything he wrote. Aquinas was a saint deeply in love with Jesus Christ, and the image of Christ pervades the entire edifice that is his philosophical, theological, and scriptural work. Above all, Thomas Aquinas was a consummate spiritual master, holding up the icon of the Word made flesh and inviting others into its transformative power."

The Ideal Bishop

The Ideal Bishop
Author: Michael G. Sirilla
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2017
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0813229103

St. Thomas Aquinas’s commentaries on the Pastoral Epistles are distinctive and overlooked theological resources, offering invaluable insights into the exercise of the episcopal office in bringing about the spiritual perfection of the faithful in Christ. The Ideal Bishop includes a review of the theology of the episcopacy found in St. Thomas’s principal contemporaries, including Peter Lombard, St. Albert the Great, and St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio. The heart of this book is an examination of the theology and spirituality of the episcopacy found in the lectures on 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus. Particular attention is devoted to Aquinas’s treatment of the nature, purpose, requisite virtues, disqualifying vice, special duties, and particular graces of the episcopal office.

Practical Theology

Practical Theology
Author: Peter Kreeft
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2014-11-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1586179683

Saint Thomas Aquinas has been admired throughout the ages for his philosophical brilliance and his theological sanity, but author and professor Peter Kreeft thinks the practical spiritual wisdom of Aquinas is just as amazing. In this book, Kreeft brings together 358 useful, everyday insights from Aquinas' masterpiece the Summa Theologiae. He pairs these easily digestible quotes from the Summa with his own delightfully written commentary in order to answer the kinds of questions real people ask their spiritual directors. These 358 passages from the Summa have helped Kreeft in his own struggles to grow closer to the Lord. His practical, personal, and livable advice is the fruit of his labors to apply the insights of Aquinas to his own quest for sanctity, happiness, and union with God.

Kundalini Energy and Christian Spirituality

Kundalini Energy and Christian Spirituality
Author: Philip St. Romain
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2010-03-31
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0557372097

Account of the awakening of the kundalini process by Philip St. Romain, with reflection on the meaning of this process from the perspective of Christian spirituality. Foreword by Thomas Keating. Appendices by James Arraj. 2nd edition. Original work by Crossroads, NY, 1991.

On the Trinity

On the Trinity
Author: Saint Augustine of Hippo
Publisher: Aeterna Press
Total Pages: 630
Release:
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

The following dissertation concerning the Trinity, as the reader ought to be informed, has been written in order to guard against the sophistries of those who disdain to begin with faith, and are deceived by a crude and perverse love of reason. Now one class of such men endeavor to transfer to things incorporeal and spiritual the ideas they have formed, whether through experience of the bodily senses, or by natural human wit and diligent quickness, or by the aid of art, from things corporeal; so as to seek to measure and conceive of the former by the latter. Aeterna Press

A Shorter Summa

A Shorter Summa
Author: Peter Kreeft
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2010-06-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1681490234

A shortened version of Kreeft's much larger Summa of the Summa, which in turn was a shortened version of the Summa Theologica. The reason for the double shortening is pretty obvious: the original runs some 4000 pages! (The Summa of the Summa was just over 500.) The Summa is certainly the greatest, most ambitious, most rational book of theology ever written. In it, there is also much philosophy, which is selected, excerpted, arranged, introduced, and explained in footnotes here by Kreeft, a popular Thomist teacher and writer. St. Thomas Aquinas is universally recognized as one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived. His writings combine the two fundamental ideals of philosophical writing: clarity and profundity. He is a master of metaphysics and technical terminology, yet so full of both theoretical and practical wisdom. He is the master of common sense. The Summa Theologica is timeless, but particularly important today because of his synthesis of faith and reason, revelation and philosophy, and the Biblical and the classical Greco-Roman heritages. This little book is designed for beginners, either for classroom use or individually. It contains the most famous and influential passages of St. Thomas' philosophy with copious aids to understanding them.

St. Thomas Aquinas for Everyone

St. Thomas Aquinas for Everyone
Author: Dave Palmer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2016-04-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692687567

In the first book of lessons from the St. Thomas Aquinas for Everyone series, Dave Palmer provides 30 quick, fun and easy lessons for people of all ages who desire to learn how to find God in their everyday experiences using the timeless teachings of the Angelic Doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas. These thirty lessons are based on the first half of the first part of St. Thomas' masterpiece, the Summa Theologica. Through fun activities, outdoor adventures, quotes from the Summa and 'Awe and Wonder' sections, the reader learns to practice a 'spirituality of awareness' in his or her everyday life, which means becoming aware of the countless ways God makes Himself present in our daily activities. These lessons train the reader to make life an exciting and meaningful journey back to He who is constantly calling us to Himself.

St. Thomas Aquinas

St. Thomas Aquinas
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2012-03-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0486122263

Chesterton's customary wit and engaging storytelling provide a brief but vivid profile. He focuses on the saint's life, rather than on theology, to illustrate Thomas's relevance to modern readers.

The Tao of Thomas Aquinas

The Tao of Thomas Aquinas
Author: Matthew Fox
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2020-01-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9781532093418

We have been considering the essence of Aquinas' teachings about our spiritual journey toward wisdom and justice and compassion and away from dullness and indifference and, in his words, folly. He says: "Folly implies apathy in the heart and dullness in the senses...For sapiens (wise) as Isidore says 'is so named from sapor (savor), because just as the taste is quick to distinguish between savors of meats, so too a wise person is quick in discerning things and causes.' Thus it is clear that folly is opposed to wisdom as its contrary...the fool has the sense, though dulled, whereas the wise person has the sense acute and penetrating."