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In \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThomistic Mystagogy: St. Thomas Aquinas’s Commentaries on the Mass\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, Urban Hannon considers the saint’s teaching on the meaning and purpose of the various rites that surround the holy Eucharist. Drawing on four essential texts—two from St. Thomas’s earliest major work, two from his latest; two on the words of the liturgy, two on its actions—this book pieces together a properly Thomistic commentary on the Mass. “Because in this sacrament the whole mystery of our salvation is embraced,” St. Thomas says, “thus it is carried out with greater solemnity.” This is a study of that “greater solemnity,” and of how St. Thomas believes it relates to “the whole mystery of our salvation.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePraise for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThomistic Mystagogy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“By introducing us to the mystery of God through his writings, St. Thomas Aquinas rightly deserves his preeminence amongst the great theologians of the Church. 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Clergy and laity alike will benefit from these pages, which are an incitement to reverence, praise, devotion, and contemplation.” —\u003cstrong\u003eScott Hahn\u003c\/strong\u003e, Franciscan University of Steubenville\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Thomas Aquinas as mystagogue? This will come as a surprise only to those who imagine Thomism as a kind of abstract religious philosophy. 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This condescending love was believed to find its most sublime expression in the Old Testament’s Song of Songs, which sings in strange, earthly tones of the transcendent, pursuing love of YHWH for His beloved and the returning devotion it was to elicit in her. For the Christian reader, this ardour, hymned in sensuous language, evokes no mortal, transient passion but an unconditional divine love fulfilled, historically and sacramentally, in Jesus Christ, the One “in whom the love of God was made manifest” (1 Jn. 4:9). This is a \u003cem\u003elove made flesh\u003c\/em\u003e, encountered in the pierced heart and broken body of the Messiah who “loved me and gave Himself up for me” (Gal. 2:20). With the help of the Church Fathers, St. Thomas Aquinas, and modern authors, Timothy Kelly explores the secret of the nuptial mystery declared in King Solomon’s enigmatic poem and perfected “in the likeness of sinful flesh” (Rom. 8:3)—in the crucified and Eucharistic love of the incarnate Lord.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for this book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“Rarely will you see a book that brings biblical, dogmatic, and mystical theology together so artfully and lucidly as this remarkable and readable synthesis does. Timothy Kelly refreshingly resets the entire question of the Song’s literal and spiritual meanings.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Scott Hahn\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Although woefully neglected in the modern lectionary and in theological discourse, the Song of Songs once enjoyed favored status among Old Testament books as a subject for commentary by the Fathers and Doctors of the Church.  Kelly brings the full resources of the Catholic faith and a self-consciously maximal theological method upon the Song of Songs to produce this exquisite contemporary reading of the book, which I hope will contribute to returning the Song to its rightful and central place within Catholic biblical theology.” \u003cstrong\u003e—John S. Bergsma\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Writing with a poet’s sensitivity to language, Dr. Kelly shows us how the Nuptial Mystery of Christ and His Church, of which the Song of Songs speaks with the authority of divine and prophetic inspiration, stands at the very centre of the Catholic faith.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Fr. John Saward\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eWounded I Sing \u003c\/em\u003eshows that the Song ‘comes into its own’ with the Incarnation and Passion of Christ, for here, at last, is God become bridegroom in the flesh, to be wholly united in marital covenant with each redeemed soul. An illuminating guide to a sublime and mysterious book.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Stephen K. Ray\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is, quite simply, a beautiful book, and Timothy Kelly is to be commended for giving us a text that illuminates Solomon’s Song as few others in recent times have done. It deserves a place on the bookshelf next to Origen and St. Bernard.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Addison Hodges Hart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTimothy Kelly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e is Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the International Theological Institute in Trumau, Austria, and Research Fellow of Blackfriars Hall, Oxford.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Os Justi Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42975867797602,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":42975867830370,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook","offer_id":42975867863138,"sku":null,"price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0566\/1353\/5842\/files\/kelly_57da9b8c-a226-461c-934e-1e132fe4f987.jpg?v=1781309496"}],"url":"https:\/\/osjustipress.com\/collections\/thomism.oembed?page=2","provider":"Os Justi Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}