La perfection, c'est la charité
Vie chrétienne et vie religieuse dans l'église du Christ
Jean-Pierre Torrell - Collection Oeuvres de thomas d'aquin
Résumé
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This book is the first unabridged translation of three little-known works by Saint Thomas Aquinas, based on the critique of the Leonine edition. Written over approximately fifteen years, between 1256 and 1271, they tell us about life in the theology department at the University of Paris at that time. As recent arrivals in the capital, the enthusiasm of their vocation still untarnished, the mendicant orders were not made welcome. Advocates of intellectual progress and religious revival, they encountered the almost universal hostility of the established authorities who slandered them outrageously. Like the Franciscans - especially Saint Bonaventure - the Dominican Thomas claimed for himself and his brothers the right to teach, preach, and live a style of religious life that had never been seen before. In the first of the three books, Against Those Who Assail the Worship of God and Religion, the Master of Aquinas leads the fight against Guillaume de Saint-Amour who, not very subtly, saw friars as the servants of the Antichrist and wrote a libelous pamphlet against them which received much attention: Periculis Novissimorum Temporum. Yet another observer, Gérard d'Abbeville, criticized (sometimes justifiably) the new orders' methods of recruitment. One of these three works was addressed to him: 'Against those who would prevent the entry into religion.' Between these two books, Saint Thomas found time to write a pure marvel (the word is not too strong): On the Perfection of the Spiritual Life which we cannot recommend warmly enough to readers. Dragged into the polemic, Thomas loses nothing of his serenity and soon transcends the debate. What had begun as a pathetic campus quarrel was soon revealed to encompass a quite unexpected ecclesial and spiritual dimension. Although these titles are no longer widely read, they do not speak solely of friars, but of the deepest things in the Christian faith: Christ and his Church whose distorted image we discover, and to whom the true countenance must be restored Christ and what we must do to live, in his footsteps, an evangelical life in the company of the first disciples. 'Spiritual life consists mainly of charity he who has no charity is insignificant, spiritually speaking. That's why the Disciple wrote:"If I have no charity, I am nothing."... So in strict observation of this principle, a person who practices perfect charity leads a perfect spiritual life... The Disciple attributes perfection essentially to charity when he adds:"the greatest of these is charity therein lies perfection"."
L'auteur - Jean-Pierre Torrell
Jean-Pierre Torrell, dominicain, est professeur émérite à la faculté de théologie de l'université de Fribourg en Suisse.
Spécialiste de saint Thomas d'Aquin, il a publié de nombreux ouvrages de théologie et de spiritualité, en particulier Initiation à saint Thomas d'Aquin. Sa personne et son oeuvre (éd. du Cerf, 1993), Saint Thomas d'Aquin, maître spirituel (éd. du Cerf, 1996), La Vierge Marie dans la foi catholique (éd. du Cerf, 2010) et Un peuple sacerdotal. Sacerdoce baptismal et ministère sacerdotal (éd. du Cerf 2011).
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Caractéristiques techniques
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Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Jean-Pierre Torrell |
Collection | Oeuvres de thomas d'aquin |
Parution | 01/04/2010 |
Nb. de pages | 921 |
Format | 17.8 x 23.2 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 1674g |
EAN13 | 9782204089746 |
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