Aquinas at Prayer by Paul Murray Op

Aquinas at Prayer by Paul Murray Op

Regular price
Checking stock...
Regular price
Checking stock...
Summary

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.

The feel-good place to buy books
  • Free US shipping over $15
  • Buying preloved emits 41% less CO2 than new
  • Millions of affordable books
  • Give your books a new home - sell them back to us!

Aquinas at Prayer by Paul Murray Op

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.
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.
SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9781441107558
ISBN 10 144110755X
Title Aquinas at Prayer
Author Paul Murray Op
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 2013-08-15
Number of pages 288
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.