Christ and Spirituality in St. Thomas Aquinas
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
The studies in this volume investigate themes of particular spiritual relevance in Thomas Aquinas’ theology: friendship, charity, prayer, configuration to Christ, priesthood, preaching. Aquinas’ approach to theology was guided by the desire to grow spiritually through theologizing. Desiring to underscore the Trinitarian character of the Christian life, Aquinas pays careful attention to the human being as created in the image of God, with Christ as the model to imitate.
Top Highlights
“God is not the object of human action, of ‘something that is to be done.’ The theologian does not have God at his disposal: he can only situate himself in relation to God, see in him his origin and his end, bring back to God everything in the universe as well as his own actions, and finally, pray to him, adore him, humble himself before him in contemplation.” (Page 7)
“The second characteristic of theology, according to Thomas Aquinas, is that God is the subject of this unique science.” (Page 5)
“since it has God as its subject, theology is more a speculative than a practical science.9” (Page 6)
“Only faith is able to make of theology a science of the real, because only faith allows us to encounter the Reality beyond the formulas that attempt to express it.” (Page 24)
“The subject is the extramental reality that the science seeks to know; the end of a science is no other than the knowledge of its subject.” (Page 5)
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