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In what ways The Ecstasy of Love in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the doctrine of love and to the interpretation of the thought of St Thomas Aquinas It is than an analysis of key texts it is an illuminating guide to the grammar of ecstasy The Ecstasy of Love in the Thought of Thomas AquinasAnyone interested in the Catholic doctrine of salvation should want to know about how the human soul becomes engaged in love how we grow in the theological virtue that is above all others and resembles God the Holy Spirit most closely. EBook The Ecstasy of Love in the Thought of Thomas aquinas high Focusing on one point of our participation in divine love and on one theologian of perennial importance.

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Those interested in the concept of ecstasy would be forgiven for assuming that a sober scholastic like St Thomas Aquinas had little place for the idea Yet in this groundbreaking study sure to refine our understanding of the Angelic Doctor Peter Kwasniewski shows that St Thomas contemplates the nature of ecstasy at key stages in the development of his thought and that it plays a crucial role in his doctrine of love After a stimulating study of treatments of ecstasy in ancient philosophy Sacred Scripture and the medieval tradition prior to Aquinas Kwasniewski finds that he can be seen as breathing new life into the concept While his contemporary St Bonaventure for example tended to restrict ecstasy to the souls union with God St Thomas admitted the place of ecstasy in a variety of human activities Further St Thomas recognized that all love involves ecstatic transcendence whether it be the creatures selfoblation to the Creator the reverence of an inferior for a superior a superiors generosity toward an inferior or the mutual affection and help of equals joined in friendship Love of persons for their own sake generates an ecstatic love in which the self is borne as a gift to another subject by sharing a common life aspiring to common goods Kwasniewski also examines Aquinas on the question of whether or not God experiences ecstasy and if so Dr Kwasniewski draws together a wide variety of important texts both primary and secondary. The Ecstasy of Love in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas kindle paperwhite Dr Kwasniewski is a polymath and a number of readers from his other disciplines may be approaching this book as newcomers to St Thomas thought For them who can begin their acquaintance with St Thomas at an elevated level here as well as for scholars seeking a learned monograph on a subject that needed to be treated for the academy this book will be a blessing English Whatever anyone may think of Peter Kwasniewski as a journalist no one should let Peter s popular and pugilistic writings scare them off from reading this his dissertation finally brought to publication It is serene delightful and truly magnificent Here Kwasniewski brings out the Dionysian romantic in St Thomas Aquinas I especially appreciated Kwasniewski s consideration of the Divine Names commentary a part of the Corpus Thomistic that has been sadly neglected His discussion of ecstasy and the holy eucharist is also lovely including the connection between Galatians ecstatic No longer I and our reception of holy communion Every student of St Thomas Aquinas should spend time with this book English Thomism is most often appreciated for its intellectualism the primacy of place that it gives to the intellect and its super elevated state brought about through grace However a full appreciation of the Thought of Thomas Aquinas as well as his most faithful expositors requires one to take seriously the place of the role of affection at all its various levels within his overall philosophical and theological outlook One cannot account for his theory of the virtues the divine indwelling or even the procession of the Holy Spirit without understanding the reality of love by which the lover finds himself or herself carried outward toward the beloved And what is this dynamism actually shoots through the whole order of being for love is found in the inclining of all things toward God each according to its particular nature as well as in line with the particular place that things play in the providential dispositions of salvation history Peter Kwasniewski in this technical but important text helps to put an axe to the roots of the supposed rationalistic intellectualism of St Thomas Ecclesiastical politics and polemics perhaps unfairly turn the reader from Dr Kwasniewski This would be an immense mistake as regards this text for in i The Ecstasy of Love in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas i Dr Kwasniewski provides a careful exegesis of Thomas in light of various scholarly debates carefully showing the essential lineaments of the way that the knower and the lover can be rightly said to be outside himself through knowledge and love This volume represents an important contribution to understanding the full breadth of Aquinas s thought which is all too often considered only to be concerned with the achievement of rational clarity and distinction whereas as the inheritor of the great themes of Christian Neo Platonism Aquinas s Aristotelianism gives a centrally important place to love and its ecstatic force English Love is the central act for understanding Thomas Aquinas s account of the moral life and progress towards union with God It is particularly difficult to understand how Thomas thinks that we can be united with God and how union could be a cause or effect of our love How can love or knowledge help us to become something outside of or other than ourselves Peter Kwasniewski has given us a reliable guide to Thomas s texts on this topic He is attentive to the various theological and philosophical difficulties and provides an account of Thomas s development from his very early Commentary on the Sentences to the later writings There is a particularly interesting account of how Thomas learned from and interpreted the writings of Pseudo Dionysius the Areopagite and then incorporate this Neo Platonic influence into his wider account of love and ecstasy Thomas M Osborne Jr English