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Contemplation and kingdom : Aquinas reads Richard of St. Victor / Kevin Hart ; Introduction by Cynthia R. Nielsen.
Van Pelt Library BV5091.C7 H378 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hart, Kevin, 1954- author.
- Neilsen, Cynthia R., author of introduction.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Contemplation.
- Richard, of St. Victor, -1173.
- Richard.
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
- Thomas.
- Physical Description:
- lii, 121 pages ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- South Bend, IN : St. Augustine's Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- This book rises out of Dr. Kevin Hart's 2020 Aquinas Lecture at the University of Dallas. Contemplation and Kingdom seeks to retrieve aspects of Richard of St. Victor's treatment of contemplation, principally in De arca mystica, and does so by weighing Thomas Aquinas's reservations about this treatment in the Summa theologiæ. Is Aquinas right to object, as Augustine does in De Doctrina Christiana, that our contemplation should go directly to God and not be stalled in the consideration of the natural world? What relation is there between Jesus's preaching of the Kingdom and the contemplation of God? Is the contemplative life consistent with Jesus's injunction to love both God and neighbor? These are the principal questions considered in the book.
- ISBN:
- 9781587311369
- 1587311364
- OCLC:
- 1155086486
- Publisher Number:
- 99986764908
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