Description
Book SynopsisAquinas 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 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
