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Aquinas at Prayer Dr Paul Murray OP (Angelicum University, Italy)

Aquinas at Prayer By Dr Paul Murray OP (Angelicum University, Italy)

Aquinas at Prayer by Dr Paul Murray OP (Angelicum University, Italy)


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Aquinas is known largely as an austere dogmatic thinker. But he is also a very great contemplative - a Master of the Spiritual Life. This book reveals important aspects of Aquinas' life and work. It explores the question of Aquinas' teaching on prayer and to reflect also his own actual practice of prayer.

Aquinas at Prayer Summary

Aquinas at Prayer: The Bible, Mysticism and Poetry by Dr Paul Murray OP (Angelicum University, Italy)

Aquinas at Prayer draws attention to important aspects of Aquinas's life and work which have been all too often overlooked or forgotten. Today Aquinas is almost exclusively regarded as an outstanding scholastic philosopher and theologian. But what is little known is that Aquinas was, first and last, a teacher of the Bible - a Master of the Sacred Page. Moreover there is a distinctly mystical character to his theology. And, as a writer, he was not only a poet but, arguably, the greatest Latin poet of the Middle Ages. The primary focus of this most engaging new book is to explore the question of Aquinas's own practice of prayer and his teaching on prayer in his commentaries on the Psalms and St Paul. The book is strengthened by quotations from Aquinas in fresh translations.

About Dr Paul Murray OP (Angelicum University, Italy)

Paul Murray is an Irish Dominican and a poet. He works in Rome, Italy, where he teaches the literature of the mystical tradition at the Angelicum University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Part One Aquinas: man of prayer 1 The Interior Life of a Mystic on Campus 2 Four Prayers Attributed to Aquinas Part Two Prayer considered: sounds in the biblical commentaries 3 Aquinas as exegete 4 Prayer in practice: Aquinas on St Paul 5 Praying in time of need: Aquinas on the Psalms Part Three Poet of the Eucharist: the hymns and canticles of Aquinas 6 A poet in the making 7 'Corpus Christi': authorship and history of composition 8 Aquinas on poetry and theology 9 The individual hymns and canticles 10 Adoro te devote: the finest prayer of Aquinas Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Index

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GOR013723076
9781441107558
144110755X
Aquinas at Prayer: The Bible, Mysticism and Poetry by Dr Paul Murray OP (Angelicum University, Italy)
Used - Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20130815
288
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