num_pages: 672
description: ...a milestone in American religious publishing. New Catholic World In one series the original writings of the universally acknowledged teachers of the Catholic Protestant Eastern Orthodox Jewish Islamic and Native American traditions have been critically selected translated and introduced by internationally recognized scholars and spiritual leaders. ALBERT AND THOMAS-SELECTED WRITINGS translated edited and introduced by Simon Tugwell O.P. preface by Leonard E. Boyle OP He who is the preeminent cause of all that the mind understands is not any of the objects of our understanding. Albert the Great (12001280) This volume contains writings by two thirteenth-century Dominicans both canonized saints both doctors of the Saint Albert the Great patron saint of natural scientist and the common doctor Saint Thomas Aquinas. Both are famous for their contributions to philosophy and theology but they are also in different ways both important in the history of spirituality. In particular Saint Thomas' huge common sense gives his message an abiding value which can be appreciated by ordinary Christians trying to practice their faith as well as by people who are concerned with more sophisticated attempts to articulate and understand their religion. The editor of the volume Simon Tugwell OP has supplied a full biographical introduction to each of the two saints and an introduction to relevant aspects of their thought so that this book serves as a real invitation to those who are unfamiliar with them as well as making a contribution to the scholarly study of their lives and works. 
language: English
title: Albert and Thomas: Selected Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality
publisher: Paulist Press