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
Paul Murray is an Irish Dominican and a poet. He works in Rome, Italy, where he teaches the literature of the mystical tradition at the Angelicum University.
While most of us wouldn't associate Dominic's Order with the love
of learning or with mystical experience, Dominican spirituality
has, in fact, been congenial to the work of the likes of St. Thomas
Aquinas, Meister Eckhart, and Mechthild of Magdeburg. Murray's
charming book urges readers to make use of Dominican spirituality
by drinking the experience of the world while remaining rooted in
God's word.
*Library Journal*
Through his rich knowledge of Dominic, Thomas, Catherine of Siena
and modern-day Dominicans, Murray draws his readers through
compelling narrative and poignant use of anecdote into exploring a
tradition that has produced some of the sharpest minds and some of
the most passionate preachers of Christian History.'
*Methodist Recorder*
Sit back, relax and drink in this book: you are in the hands of an
enthusiast! ... I can't recall reading as lucid account 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*
...combines impeccable scholarship, profound wisdom, accessible
clarity and a wonderful sense of fun, bringing admirably to life
the captivating humanity of early Dominicans.
*The Tablet*
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