The Service of Wisdom: The Focus of Dominican Life
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Dominican life is a service of Wisdom. Such is the teaching of the Italian Dominican Father Raymund Spiazzi. Following the principles of Thomas Aquinas, and drawing upon other Dominican saints as well, Father Spiazzi explains his teaching over the course of many short conferences. Saint Dominic received the grace of a special love and service of wisdom and a charism to “communicate wisdom with joy.” Saint Dominic also organized a form of religious life—communal, liturgical, and apostolic—so that others might share in the same grace, charism, and service. The whole form of life established by Saint Dominic for his order has its raison d’être in the love and service of truth—the incarnate wisdom. The followers of Saint Dominic are called to cultivate wisdom in all of its forms—philosophical, theological, and mystical. The regular life of prayer and study, liturgy and fraternity cultivates the manifold wisdom of God in our souls. Father Spiazzi illuminates how. He discusses the theological virtues, intellectual and moral virtues, the gifts and fruits of the Spirit, the Beatitudes, the sacraments, and much more. All of the elements of Dominican life together give harmonious unity to the mind and the interior life by the grace of the Holy Spirit. Contemplative activity informs our actions, and the Holy Spirit also makes us effective servants, friends, lovers, spouses, worshipers, preachers, and teachers of the eternal wisdom of God. Christ, wisdom, and eternal truth, become the reason for living and working for the salvation of souls.
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- Argues that the Dominican life is a service of Wisdom.
- Illuminates how to cultivate the manifold wisdom of God in our souls.
- Discusses the theological virtues, intellectual and moral virtues, the gifts and fruits of the Spirit.
- Chapter 1: The Beginning of Wisdom
- Chapter 2: The Psychology of Wisdom
- Chapter 3: The Dynamism of Wisdom
- Chapter 4: The Denial of Wisdom
- Chapter 5: The Degrees of Wisdom
- Chapter 6: The Beatitude of Wisdom
- Chapter 7: The Asceticism of Wisdom
- Chapter 8: The Primacy of Wisdom
- Chapter 9: The Sins against Wisdom
- Chapter 10: Wisdom in Religious Life
- Chapter 11: Religious Vows as Paths of Wisdom
- Chapter 12: Wisdom and Prayer
- Chapter 13: Wisdom and the Sacraments
- Chapter 14: The Seat of Wisdom
- Chapter 15: The Bridegroom of Wisdom
- Chapter 16: From Beatitudes to Beatitude
Wisdom looks at reality from God the Creator’s point of view. In articulating the Dominican’s love of wisdom, Spiazzi has also shown how even the laity can grow in holy wisdom.
—Basil Cole, OP, Dominican House of Studies
In an age of confusion and chaos, this call to welcome the stabilizing dynamism of the Spirit of wisdom is both timely and needed. Notable in clarity and brevity, this book points to wisdom’s source—the indwelling God whose creative, redemptive charity elevates and reorders our thoughts and lives. Anyone who hungers for the peace this world cannot give will find in this work an appetizing invitation to taste the sweet knowledge of eternal wisdom.
—Mary Madeline Todd, OP, Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia
Seekers of truth and wisdom will be grateful for this translation of Fr. Spiazzi’s wonderful little book Il culto della Sapienza. I recommend to anyone interested not just in a life of technical know-how, but in a life of that wisdom which orders the universe to get their hands on this little book. Wisdom rewards those who pursue her.
—Joseph-Mary Hertzog, OP, Tangaza University College
- Title: The Service of Wisdom: The Focus of Dominican Life
- Author: Raimondo OP Spiazzi
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Pages: 90
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781666749670, 9781666749694, 1666749672, 1666749699, 9781666749687, 1666749680
- Resource ID: LLS:SRVCWSDMDMNCNLF
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-17T01:59:45Z