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Commentary on the Beatitudes
An annotated translation of Thomas Aquinas’ Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew 5:3-12, with theological appendices. The appendices take a deeper look at theological concepts employed in the commentary and include a reflection on the beatitudes as present in the celebration of the Mass.
The beatitudes constitute the heart of the Sermon on the Mount, which is often referred to as the gospel of the Gospels. This commentary presents the thoughts of one of the Church’s greatest theologians on these crucial verses, and Aquinas masterfully illuminates their meaning as he weaves together the traditional fourfold method of scriptural interpretation – examining the literal, moral, allegorical, and anagogic levels present.
This translation comes from the Reportatio of Petri de Andria, one of Aquinas’ personal scribes during the Angelic Doctor’s tenure at Paris. It utilizes a dynamic translation methodology to smooth over the rougher parts of Petri’s report and fill out its terser portions. Ample annotations are employed to indicate such sections as well as provide further context and explanation throughout the commentary.
The beatitudes constitute the heart of the Sermon on the Mount, which is often referred to as the gospel of the Gospels. This commentary presents the thoughts of one of the Church’s greatest theologians on these crucial verses, and Aquinas masterfully illuminates their meaning as he weaves together the traditional fourfold method of scriptural interpretation – examining the literal, moral, allegorical, and anagogic levels present.
This translation comes from the Reportatio of Petri de Andria, one of Aquinas’ personal scribes during the Angelic Doctor’s tenure at Paris. It utilizes a dynamic translation methodology to smooth over the rougher parts of Petri’s report and fill out its terser portions. Ample annotations are employed to indicate such sections as well as provide further context and explanation throughout the commentary.
120 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 20, 2024
About the author
Thomas Aquinas
2,734 books1,192 followersPhilosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas, a Dominican friar and theologian of Italy and the most influential thinker of the medieval period, combined doctrine of Aristotle and elements of Neoplatonism, a system that Plotinus and his successors developed and based on that of Plato, within a context of Christian thought; his works include the
Summa contra gentiles
(1259-1264) and the
Summa theologiae
or theologica (1266-1273).
Saint Albertus Magnus taught Saint Thomas Aquinas.
People ably note this priest, sometimes styled of Aquin or Aquino, as a scholastic. The Roman Catholic tradition honors him as a "doctor of the Church."
Aquinas lived at a critical juncture of western culture when the arrival of the Aristotelian corpus in Latin translation reopened the question of the relation between faith and reason, calling into question the modus vivendi that obtained for centuries. This crisis flared just as people founded universities. Thomas after early studies at Montecassino moved to the University of Naples, where he met members of the new Dominican order. At Naples too, Thomas first extended contact with the new learning. He joined the Dominican order and then went north to study with Albertus Magnus, author of a paraphrase of the Aristotelian corpus. Thomas completed his studies at the University of Paris, formed out the monastic schools on the left bank and the cathedral school at Notre Dame. In two stints as a regent master, Thomas defended the mendicant orders and of greater historical importance countered both the interpretations of Averroës of Aristotle and the Franciscan tendency to reject Greek philosophy. The result, a new modus vivendi between faith and philosophy, survived until the rise of the new physics. The Catholic Church over the centuries regularly and consistently reaffirmed the central importance of work of Thomas for understanding its teachings concerning the Christian revelation, and his close textual commentaries on Aristotle represent a cultural resource, now receiving increased recognition.
Saint Albertus Magnus taught Saint Thomas Aquinas.
People ably note this priest, sometimes styled of Aquin or Aquino, as a scholastic. The Roman Catholic tradition honors him as a "doctor of the Church."
Aquinas lived at a critical juncture of western culture when the arrival of the Aristotelian corpus in Latin translation reopened the question of the relation between faith and reason, calling into question the modus vivendi that obtained for centuries. This crisis flared just as people founded universities. Thomas after early studies at Montecassino moved to the University of Naples, where he met members of the new Dominican order. At Naples too, Thomas first extended contact with the new learning. He joined the Dominican order and then went north to study with Albertus Magnus, author of a paraphrase of the Aristotelian corpus. Thomas completed his studies at the University of Paris, formed out the monastic schools on the left bank and the cathedral school at Notre Dame. In two stints as a regent master, Thomas defended the mendicant orders and of greater historical importance countered both the interpretations of Averroës of Aristotle and the Franciscan tendency to reject Greek philosophy. The result, a new modus vivendi between faith and philosophy, survived until the rise of the new physics. The Catholic Church over the centuries regularly and consistently reaffirmed the central importance of work of Thomas for understanding its teachings concerning the Christian revelation, and his close textual commentaries on Aristotle represent a cultural resource, now receiving increased recognition.
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