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Christ and Spirituality in St. Thomas Aquinas is unavailable, but you can change that!

The studies in this volume investigate themes of particular spiritual relevance in Thomas Aquinas’ theology: friendship, charity, prayer, configuration to Christ, priesthood, preaching. Aquinas’ approach to theology was guided by the desire to grow spiritually through theologizing. Desiring to underscore the Trinitarian character of the Christian life, Aquinas pays careful attention to the human...

(following the Holy Spirit). The matter is particularly clear with respect to the vocabulary of conformity. In the Index Thomisticus we can pick out 435 instances of conformitas and words akin to it. Of this total, 236 refer to God in one way or another; 199 apply only to Christ. Obviously these numbers need to be weighed (notably through the use of the closely connected word configuratio: used 57 times, 47 for Christ and 10 for God), but at least they prompt us to verify what these words disclose