Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations: English Text (Latin-English Opera Omnia)
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Overview
The commentaries on Jeremiah and Lamentations were likely written near the end of Thomas Aquinas’s time with Albert the Great in Cologne, before Aquinas left to teach in Paris in 1252. Perhaps even more so than his commentary on Isaiah, these commentaries are “cursory,” succinct and focused on an understanding of the literal meaning of the text. But, as Aquinas himself explains in the prologues to these commentaries, the literal sense of these texts is filled with written wisdom—a divine wisdom that aids us in the attainment of our end of living well and our ultimate end of the glory of immortality. The commentary on Jeremiah also includes collationes, collections of scriptural texts connected with the passage at hand and useful for prayer, study, and preaching.
- Shows these commentaries were likely written near the end of Thomas Aquinas’s time.
- Gives an understanding of the literal meaning of the text.
- Explains the literal sense of these texts is filled with written wisdom.
- Title: Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations: English Text
- Author: Thomas Aquinas
- Series: Latin/English Edition of the Works of St. Thomas Aquinas: English Text
- Volume: 31
- Publishers: Aquinas Institute, Emmaus Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 568
- Era: era:medieval
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible. O.T. Jeremiah › Commentaries--Early works to 1800; Bible. O.T. Lamentations › Commentaries--Early works to 1800; Bible. O.T. Jeremiah › Commentaries; Bible. O.T. Lamentations › Commentaries
- ISBNs: 9781623400316, 9781623401313, 1623400317, 1623401313
- Resource ID: LLS:CMMJRMHPRMN31
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-08-06T16:47:05Z
Thomas Aquinas (1225–7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. An immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, he is also known within the latter as the Doctor Angelicus and the Doctor Communis. He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology and he argued that reason is found in God. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy developed or opposed his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law, metaphysics, and political theory.
Unlike many currents in the Church of the time, Aquinas embraced the philosophy of Aristotle—whom he called “the Philosopher”—and attempted to synthesize Aristotelian philosophy with the principles of Christianity.
His best-known works are the Disputed Questions on Truth (1256–1259), the Summa contra Gentiles (1259–1265), and the unfinished but massively influential Summa Theologica (1265–1274). His commentaries on Scripture and on Aristotle also form an important part of his body of work. Furthermore, Thomas is distinguished for his eucharistic hymns, which form a part of the Church’s liturgy. The Catholic Church honors Thomas Aquinas as a saint and regards him as the model teacher for those studying for the priesthood, and indeed the highest expression of both natural reason and speculative theology. In modern times, under papal directives, the study of his works was long used as a core of the required program of study for those seeking ordination as priests or deacons, as well as for those in religious formation and for other students of the sacred disciplines (philosophy, Catholic theology, church history, liturgy, and canon law).
Thomas Aquinas is considered one of the Catholic Church’s greatest theologians and philosophers. Pope Benedict XV declared: “This (Dominican) Order . . . acquired new luster when the Church declared the teaching of Thomas to be her own and that Doctor, honored with the special praises of the Pontiffs, the master and patron of Catholic schools.”