The Service of Wisdom
eBook - ePub

The Service of Wisdom

The Focus of Dominican Life

  1. 90 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Service of Wisdom

The Focus of Dominican Life

About this book

Dominican life is a service of Wisdom. Such is the teaching of the Italian Dominican Father Raymund Spiazzi. Following the principles of Thomas Aquinas, and drawing upon other Dominican saints as well, Father Spiazzi explains his teaching over the course of many short conferences. Saint Dominic received the grace of a special love and service of wisdom and a charism to "communicate wisdom with joy." Saint Dominic also organized a form of religious life--communal, liturgical, and apostolic--so that others might share in the same grace, charism, and service. The whole form of life established by Saint Dominic for his order has its raison d'etre in the love and service of truth--the incarnate wisdom. The followers of Saint Dominic are called to cultivate wisdom in all of its forms--philosophical, theological, and mystical. The regular life of prayer and study, liturgy and fraternity cultivates the manifold wisdom of God in our souls. Father Spiazzi illuminates how. He discusses the theological virtues, intellectual and moral virtues, the gifts and fruits of the Spirit, the Beatitudes, the sacraments, and much more. All of the elements of Dominican life together give harmonious unity to the mind and the interior life by the grace of the Holy Spirit. Contemplative activity informs our actions, and the Holy Spirit also makes us effective servants, friends, lovers, spouses, worshipers, preachers, and teachers of the eternal wisdom of God. Christ, wisdom, and eternal truth, become the reason for living and working for the salvation of souls.

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Information

Publisher
Wipf and Stock
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781666749670
9781666749687
eBook ISBN
9781666749694
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Christian Denominations

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Translator’s Note
  3. Foreword
  4. Introduction
  5. Abbreviations
  6. Chapter 1: The Beginning of Wisdom
  7. Chapter 2: The Psychology of Wisdom
  8. Chapter 3: The Dynamism of Wisdom
  9. Chapter 4: The Denial of Wisdom
  10. Chapter 5: The Degrees of Wisdom
  11. Chapter 6: The Beatitude of Wisdom
  12. Chapter 7: The Asceticism of Wisdom
  13. Chapter 8: The Primacy of Wisdom
  14. Chapter 9: The Sins against Wisdom
  15. Chapter 10: Wisdom in Religious Life
  16. Chapter 11: Religious Vows as Paths of Wisdom
  17. Chapter 12: Wisdom and Prayer
  18. Chapter 13: Wisdom and the Sacraments
  19. Chapter 14: The Seat of Wisdom
  20. Chapter 15: The Bridegroom of Wisdom
  21. Chapter 16: From Beatitudes to Beatitude
  22. Bibliography

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