Speaking with Aquinas : a conversation about grace, virtue, and the Eucharist
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Speaking with Aquinas : a conversation about grace, virtue, and the Eucharist
（A Michael Glazier book）
Liturgical Press, c2017
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-162) and index
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Description
According to Thomas Aquinas, the Eucharist is meant to build up the unity of the church. This desired ecclesial unity is, however, not often given adequate treatment. In Speaking with Aquinas, David Farina Turnbloom seeks to describe the relationship between the celebration of the Eucharist and the unity of the church. By examining Aquinas's treatment of grace and virtues, this book allows the reader to understand Aquinas's eucharistic theology within the context of the spiritual life of the church. In the end, Turnbloom retrieves a Thomistic theology of the Eucharist that arises from Aquinas's concern for the virtuous life of the church, rather than a eucharistic theology that too narrowly focuses on theories of transubstantiation.
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Contents
FOREWORD - Bruce T. Morrill, SJ
PREFACE
Conversion through Conversation
INTRODUCTION
Finding a Lost Voice
I. Grammars
II. Scholastic Grammars
III. Modern Grammars
IV. The Problem: Lacking Context
V. The Solution: Finding a Lost Voice
CHAPTER ONE
Why the Secunda Pars?
I. Lamenting the Loss of a Loss
1. The Deadly Dichotomy
2. Consequences of the Deadly Dichotomy
II. The Purpose of the Summa Theologiae
III. Signification and Causality
IV. Baptism and Penance: Infusing Charity
V. The Eucharist: Increasing Charity
VI. Unanswered Questions
CHAPTER TWO
Grace as the Embodied Spiritual Life
I. The Teleological Nature of the Spiritual Life
1. The Structure of the Summa Theologiae
2. The Place of the Prima Secundae in the Summa
II. Grace and the Spiritual Life
1. Grace Actualizing the Image of God
2. The Spiritual Life Conforming to Grace
III. Belief and Signs
IV. Conclusion: Cooperative Participation
CHAPTER THREE
The Theological Virtues Founding the EmbodiedSpiritual Life
I. The Theological Virtues: Orders and Degrees
1. Faith, Hope, and Charity
2. Orders of Generation and Perfection
3. Three Degrees of Charity
II. Falling in Love with God
1. Justification
2. Infusion
III. Growing in Love for God
1. Sanctification
2. Increase
IV. Being Saved by Love
CHAPTER FOUR
The Moral Virtues Manifesting the Embodied Spiritual Life
I. Moral Virtues
1. The Codependence of Moral Virtues
2. Acquiring and Increasing Moral Virtue
II. Embodying Friendship with God
1. Operating Ex Caritate
2. Dispositive Acts of Charity
3. Communal Embodiment of Friendship with God
III. Grammars of Grace and Virtue
CHAPTER FIVE
The Eucharist Nourishing the Embodied Spiritual Life
I. Jesus Establishes the Way
1. Paschal Mystery as Sacrificial Sign of God's Love
2. Provocation as Possibility of Theosis
II. Sacraments Show the Way
1. Writing the Signs through Religion
2. Reading the Signs through Faith
3. Graced Cooperation
III. Eucharist as Nourishment for the Way
1. Writing Christ through the Eucharist
2. Spiritually Eating through Faith
3. The Unity of the Church:The Fellowship of Sinful Saints
C H A P T E R S I X
A Liturgical Theology of Right Religion
I. A Self-Defeating Tendency
II. Goodness and Rightness
III. Religious Signification
IV. Right Religion
1. Religious Prudence
2. Striving for Right Religion
V. Writing a Diverse Christ for a Plural World
1. Prudently Writing Christ
2. How Do We Write Christ?
CONCLUSION
Speaking with a Lost Voice
Bibliography
Index
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