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St Thomas Aquinas with the Blessed Sacrament
St Thomas Aquinas with the Blessed Sacrament — oil painting, public domain
A Compendium of Scholastic Theology

On Prayer and the Contemplative Life

Selected Questions of St Thomas Aquinas's Summa on religion, devotion, prayer, and the active and contemplative lives — in the translation of the Very Rev. Hugh Pope, O.P.

9 Questions · one selection

  1. Of the Virtue of Religion

    Hugh Pope's translation of Summa II-II Q.81 — Of the Virtue of Religion (8 Articles).

  2. Of Devotion

    Hugh Pope's translation of Summa II-II Q.82 — Of Devotion (4 Articles).

  3. Of Prayer

    Hugh Pope's translation of Summa II-II Q.83 — Of Prayer (16 Articles).

  4. Of the Prayers of the Saints Who are in Heaven

    Hugh Pope's translation of Summa Suppl. Q.72 — Of the Prayers of the Saints Who are in Heaven (3 Articles).

  5. Of the Division of Life into the Active and the Contemplative

    Hugh Pope's translation of Summa II-II Q.179 — Of the Division of Life into the Active and the Contemplative (2 Articles).

  6. Of the Contemplative Life

    Hugh Pope's translation of Summa II-II Q.180 — Of the Contemplative Life (8 Articles).

  7. Of the Active Life

    Hugh Pope's translation of Summa II-II Q.181 — Of the Active Life (4 Articles).

  8. Of the Comparison Between the Active and the Contemplative Life

    Hugh Pope's translation of Summa II-II Q.182 — Of the Comparison Between the Active and the Contemplative Life (4 Articles).

  9. On the Religious State

    Hugh Pope's translation of Summa II-II Q.186 — On the Religious State (0 Articles).

Translated by the Very Rev. Hugh Pope, O.P. (1914), public domain. Reproduced from Project Gutenberg. Ninth Heaven hosts it freely, without charge.
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