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Simon Tugwell

Autor(a) de Early Dominicans : selected writings

23+ Works 1,136 Membros 10 Críticas

About the Author

Simon Tugwell is a member of the Dominican Historical Institute.

Obras por Simon Tugwell

Prayer: Living With God (1800) 123 exemplares
Albert and Thomas: Selected Writings (1275) — Editor — 120 exemplares
Prayer in Practice (1974) 105 exemplares
Way of the Preacher (1979) 53 exemplares
Did you receive the Spirit? (1972) 52 exemplares

Associated Works

Language, Meaning and God: Essays in Honour of Herbert McCabe (1987) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Tugwell, Simon
Nome legal
Tugwell, Simon Charles ffoster
Data de nascimento
1943-05-04
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
UK
Ocupações
Catholic priest
Organizações
Order of Preachers (Dominicans)

Membros

Críticas

 
Assinalado
SrMaryLea | Aug 22, 2023 |
This is not a "how to" book on prayer, but provides profound insights to encourage the practice of prayer. As the author says in his introduction, "This book is concerned with our relationship with God...in becoming the kind of people who can keep company with God and, more importantly, enjoy his company."
 
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atdCross | 1 outra crítica | Jun 27, 2019 |
Saint Dominic and the Order of Preachers is a nice, short overview of the life and career of St. Dominic de Guzmán, founder of the Dominican Order. As one might expect there is an emphasis on his public life and how he managed to form the Dominicans from almost nothing with little support and a great deal of opposition. After all, no one had ever had an order dedicated to preaching before. Not to mention the fact that his base of operations was in the middle of a war zone. If you've ever wondered about the man behind the Order of Preachers, but don't want to commit to a large book, this is worth picking up.… (mais)
 
Assinalado
inge87 | Apr 21, 2017 |
This was a very readable translation of documents from the first members of the Dominican Order in the thirteenth century. The earliest of these writings were testimonies about the founder (St. Dominic), many of which noted his compassion for others. The majority of the book, though, is the long and carefully argued "On the Formation of Preachers," which defended the idea of itinerant preaching as a vocation. This section still has relevance today. For example, a chapter about "Those Who Withdraw Themselves From Preaching" offers many excuses for why people avoid preachers and church services, then and now. There are also very good illustrations of the concepts: in arguing against "long commentaries on every single detail" of a longer text, the author compares it to "wanting to make a meal out of a cow and preparing one dish from the horns, one from the skin, another from the hoofs, and so on [until] the cow was quite used up. That is not a sensible way to cook." Even non-Dominican preachers could obtain valuable tips about sermon writing and reaching unbelievers from this essay; the one drawback is the constant reliance on the extra-biblical glosses that were popular at that time.

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LT Haiku:

English translations
of early documents of
Order of Preachers.
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Assinalado
legallypuzzled | 1 outra crítica | Apr 19, 2014 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
23
Also by
1
Membros
1,136
Popularidade
#22,596
Avaliação
4.1
Críticas
10
ISBN
40
Línguas
1

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