This lively and compelling book by Paul Murray OP names and celebrates aspects of the Dominican tradition which are at the very core of its spirituality. This tradition has often been described in the past, and for good reason, as scholarly and intellectual. But the lives of the Dominicans whose voices we hear in this book were also, and to an extraordinary degree, apostolic, exuberant, evangelical, risk-taking, mystical, and robust. One of the things which has characterized the Dominican spirit from the beginning is a sense of openness to the world. Dominicans, such as Thomas Aquinas, Jordan of Saxony, and Catherine of Siena, were not only impressive celebrants of grace. They were also defenders of nature. After the example of St. Dominic himself, they learned to drink deep from the wine of God's Word, and became witnesses not only of certain great moral and doctrinal truths but witnesses also of an unimaginable joy. One reason, in society today, why so many feel unfulfilled and are not happy is because the vision of life offered is one that is restricted to a pragmatic, one-dimensional view of the world. The Dominican vision of life we find presented in this book is one that is truly broad and joyous. It is a path of spirituality open to people of all kinds and conditions.
| ISBN | 0860124177 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9780860124177
(What's this?) | | Pages | 160 | | Publisher | Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. | | Volumes | 1 | | Imprint | Burns & Oates Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 245 | | Format | Paperback | | Published in | London | | Publication date | 26 Jan 2006 | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Writer of foreword | Timothy Radcliffe | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Library of Congress | BX | | Spine width (mm) | 16 | | DEWEY | 248 | | Academic level | General, Professional / Scholarly |
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Foreword by The Most Reverend Timothy Radcliffe OP Introduction; 1. What is Dominican Spirituality?; 2. Dominicans and Happiness; 3. Eat the Book; 4. Dominicans Drinking.
'Sit back, relax and drink in this book: you are in the hands of an enthusiast!...This is a book written in simple English, with not too many words on the page, with succinct and interesting footnotes, with ubheadings that help you to spot the bog ideas and argument along the way. ...I can't recall reading as lucid accont of the balance between action and contemplation anywhere as in the section The World Within God's Hand in the first chapter. What a joy, too, to read some genuinely exuberant writing on the importance of happiness for Dominicans.' The Pastoral Review, Vol 2, Isssue 5--Roland Riem, Canon Pater and Missioner, Winchester Cathedral "Pastoral Review, The "
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