Speaking with Aquinas
A Conversation about Grace, Virtue, and the Eucharist
Speaking with Aquinas
A Conversation about Grace, Virtue, and the Eucharist
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Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 9780814687802
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 27/02/2017
Width: 15.2 cm
Height: 22.9 cm
According to Thomas Aquinas, the Eucharist is meant to build up the unity of the church. This desired ecclesial unity is, however, not often given adequate treatment. In Speaking with Aquinas, David Farina Turnbloom seeks to describe the relationship between the celebration of the Eucharist and the unity of the church. By examining Aquinas's treatment of grace and virtues, this book allows the reader to understand Aquinas's eucharistic theology within the context of the spiritual life of the church. In the end, Turnbloom retrieves a Thomistic theology of the Eucharist that arises from Aquinas's concern for the virtuous life of the church, rather than a eucharistic theology that too narrowly focuses on theories of transubstantiation.
Contents
FOREWORD - Bruce T. Morrill, SJ xi
PREFACE
Conversion through Conversation x
INTRODUCTION
Finding a Lost Voice xvii
I. Grammars xvii
II. Scholastic Grammars xx
III. Modern Grammars xxiv
IV. The Problem: Lacking Context xxvii
V. The Solution: Finding a Lost Voice xxx
CHAPTER ONE
Why the Secunda Pars? 1
I. Lamenting the Loss of a Loss 2
1. The Deadly Dichotomy 2
2. Consequences of the Deadly Dichotomy 5
II. The Purpose of the Summa Theologiae 9
III. Signification and Causality 11
IV. Baptism and Penance: Infusing Charity 16
V. The Eucharist: Increasing Charity 20
VI. Unanswered Questions 25
CHAPTER TWO
Grace as the Embodied Spiritual Life 27
I. The Teleological Nature of the Spiritual Life 28
1. The Structure of the Summa Theologiae 29
2. The Place of the Prima Secundae in the Summa 32
II. Grace and the Spiritual Life 33
1. Grace Actualizing the Image of God 35
2. The Spiritual Life Conforming to Grace 39
III. Belief and Signs 40
IV. Conclusion: Cooperative Participation 47
CHAPTER THREE
The Theological Virtues Founding the Embodied Spiritual Life 49
I. The Theological Virtues: Orders and Degrees 50
1. Faith, Hope, and Charity 51
2. Orders of Generation and Perfection 52
3. Three Degrees of Charity 56
II. Falling in Love with God 57
1. Justification 58
2. Infusion 61
III. Growing in Love for God 64
1. Sanctification 64
2. Increase 66
IV. Being Saved by Love 70
CHAPTER FOUR
The Moral Virtues Manifesting the Embodied Spiritual Life 73
I. Moral Virtues 74
1. The Codependence of Moral Virtues 75
2. Acquiring and Increasing Moral Virtue 84
II. Embodying Friendship with God 87
1. Operating Ex Caritate 87
2. Dispositive Acts of Charity 92
3. Communal Embodiment of Friendship with God 97
III. Grammars of Grace and Virtue 100
CHAPTER FIVE
The Eucharist Nourishing the Embodied Spiritual Life 103
I. Jesus Establishes the Way 104
1. Paschal Mystery as Sacrificial Sign of God’s Love 104
2. Provocation as Possibility of Theosis 108
II. Sacraments Show the Way 111
1. Writing the Signs through Religion 112
2. Reading the Signs through Faith 115
3. Graced Cooperation 118
III. Eucharist as Nourishment for the Way 120
1. Writing Christ through the Eucharist 121
2. Spiritually Eating through Faith 123
3. The Unity of the Church: The Fellowship of Sinful Saints 129
C H A P T E R S I X
A Liturgical Theology of Right Religion 133
I. A Self-Defeating Tendency 133
II. Goodness and Rightness 138
III. Religious Signification 140
IV. Right Religion 142
1. Religious Prudence 143
2. Striving for Right Religion 144
V. Writing a Diverse Christ for a Plural World 148
1. Prudently Writing Christ 148
2. How Do We Write Christ? 150
CONCLUSION
Speaking with a Lost Voice 155
Bibliography 157
Index 163
"Lucid, compelling, and conversational, David Farina Turnbloom's Speaking with Aquinas connects the sacramental theology of the Summa Theologica with Thomas Aquinas's soteriology and ethics. By examining the relationship between grace and the virtues, Turnbloom uncovers the presuppositions of Thomas Aquinas's treatises on the sacraments and on the Eucharist. Aquinas's `multiple grammars' allow him to treat the paradoxical agency of both Christ and the Christian in the sacraments. As a result, in this nuanced but accessible treatment, the Holy Spirit and the Christian life of faith emerge as the center of Aquinas's sacramental theology. Speaking with Aquinas reveals the links between Christology, sacrament, the Eucharist, and ethics, showing how Aquinas's sacramental soteriology can still speak to readers today."Kimberly Belcher, PhD, University of Notre Dame "David Turnbloom invites us into an entirely new conversation about how the Eucharist nourishes our moral lives. Into the circle of contemporary theologians like Chauvet, Morrill, and Baldovin, Turnbloom invites Thomas Aquinas and gives him room to speak about his grammar of grace and virtue. As Turnbloom channels Thomas, we hear the thirteenth-century theologian with a whole new voice speaking to us about the spiritual life of friendship with God as a pilgrim community. Refreshingly satisfying discourse for hungry Christians on the move!"James F. Keenan, SJ, Canisius Professor, Boston College "Turnbloom provides a comprehensive understanding of the Eucharist while allowing Aquinas's work to be given a place that is extremely helpful to Christianity as a whole rather than getting bogged down"Robert Huttmeyer, Catholic Library World "Many elements of his work will facilitate conversation among even the most entrenched parties on either side, namely, those who would absolutize scholastic grammars of the sacraments, and those who would do likewise to modern grammars, such as those grounded in patristics, anthropology, or studies of symbols."Theological Studies "An ambitious project, but quite a necessary one. Turnbloom's attempt to build a dialogue between different aspects of Aquinas's thought and bring it into a more recent kind of liturgical theology is admirable. The author's writing is accessible to the ordinary reader who might not be familiar with Thomistic theology."Ecclesia Orans "By retrieving Aquinas' own understanding of grace and virtue, and the underlying principles of theosis, Turnbloom shows that there is not necessarily a deficit in Aquinas so much as in the interpretation of his work. Turnbloom also makes a strong case for the importance of virtues of charity and prudence in constructing `right' acts of religion today, perhaps offering a rejoinder to the more aggressive elements on both sides of current liturgical debates." Anaphora "This stimulating book sets a high bar for further study of other medieval authors like Bonaventure to situate their sacramental, eucharistic theologies more broadly within the broader context of the whole scope of their work. The book is a creative and thought-provoking contribution to contemporary eucharistic theology."
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