Spiritual theology · selected questions
On Prayer and the Contemplative Life
St. Thomas Aquinas c. 1225–1274A Dominican selection from the Summa on religion, devotion, prayer, and the active and contemplative lives.
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Hugh Pope, O.P., gathered closely related questions from the Summa Theologiae into a practical school of prayer and contemplation, adding patristic parallels and occasional commentary. The editorial frame belongs to 1914; each reader section identifies whether the words are Aquinas’s argument or Pope’s surrounding apparatus.
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2- 01Question LXXXIII · Article IIIPrayer as an act of religionThomas Aquinas, On Prayer and the Contemplative Life, q. 83, a. 3, trans. Hugh Pope, O.P. (London: R. & T. Washbourne, 1914), 76–79.3 minRead →
- 02Question CLXXIX · Article IThe active and contemplative livesThomas Aquinas, On Prayer and the Contemplative Life, q. 179, a. 1, trans. Hugh Pope, O.P. (London: R. & T. Washbourne, 1914), 170–174.4 minRead →