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On Prayer and the Contemplative Life

English translation · Translated by Hugh Pope

by Aquinas Thomas

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English readers of 1914 received Thomas Aquinas on prayer and the contemplative life through Hugh Pope, a Dominican priest, who presents the texts. Vincent McNabb adds a preface arguing that mystical teaching needs the careful reasoning Aquinas brought to it, and that the thirteenth-century friar suits an age pulled between distrust of science and a vague mysticism. The preface also points out how closely the Spanish mystic John of the Cross followed Aquinas in his account of the senses and the faculties of the soul.

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Aquinas Thomas

Thomas Aquinas (about 1225 to 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and theologian who spent his career arguing that Christian faith and Aristotelian reason belong together. Fellow students called him the dumb ox for his silence; the Catholic Church later made him a saint and its central teacher.

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