On prayer and the contemplative life
On Prayer and the Contemplative Life gathers the questions of the Summa Theologica in which Thomas Aquinas treats the virtue of religion, devotion and prayer, followed by his discussion of the contemplative and active lives and of the religious state. Translated by the Dominican scholar Hugh Pope and published in 1914 with a preface by Vincent McNabb, it keeps the scholastic method intact: each article raises objections, answers them from Scripture and the Fathers, and settles the point with precise distinctions. Readers will find Aquinas's commentary on the seven petitions of the Lord's Prayer and his reasoning on why and how one should pray at all. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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