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Three Translations
By St. Thomas Aquinas
Translated by Rev. John Procter, O.P.
Revised with a new introduction by Mark Johnson
Originally published separately as An Apology for the Religious
Orders (1902) and The Religious State, the Episcopate, and the
Priestly Office (1902), this book presents—for the first time in one
volume and in correct historical order—the rare English
translations of three key works by Aquinas, who found himself
over a fifteen-year period (1256-1271) forced at the University of
Paris to defend the fledgling mendicant orders, his own
Dominicans and the Franciscans, against the attacks of the
established secular or diocesan clergy. The significance of these
debates, and Aquinas’s participation in them, to the history of
western Christendom cannot be overestimated. The sanctity and
freedom of the individual person and the social rights and duties
of religion, ideas polished by the deft hands of Aquinas, shine in
these discourses, which figure prominently, among other places,
in modern papal social teaching.
Complete with a new informative introduction and comprehensive
new index, this title is required reading in philosophy, political
theory, theology, and medieval and church history—and thus
belongs in every academic, research, and scholar’s library.
This volume comprises the following texts:
“Against those who attack the religious profession”(Contra
impugnantes dei cultum et religionem, 1256).
“The Perfection of the Spiritual Life” (De perfectione spiritualis
vitae, 1269-1270).
“Against those who would deter men from entering religion”
(Contra doctrinam retrahentium a religione, 1271-1272).