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"The fulfillment of the vocation of an intellectual, in service to Church and society, requires both contemplative and active activities; both the pursuit of knowledge through study and the communication of knowledge through teaching. And for St. Thomas, the ideal is not a purely contemplative life that only seeks knowledge, nor a purely active life that only seeks to communicate knowledge, but a contemplative life that is so full that it overflows in teaching.
And so he says, famously: 'Just as it is better to illuminate than merely to shine, so it is better to hand onto others what is contemplated than merely to contemplate' (Summa Theologiae II-II q. 188, a. 6).
And this is where the Dominican Order gets one of its mottos, 'Contemplata aliis tradere' -- to hand on to others what has been contemplated." —Prof. Joshua Revelle
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This talk was given on October 9, 2021 at St. Joseph's Retreat Center as part of "Prayer in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas: A Weekend Intellectual Retreat."
About the speaker:
Joshua Revelle is an adjunct instructor at Mount Saint Mary College, with a PhD in Spirituality from The Catholic University of America. His areas of specialization are dogmatic and spiritual theology, especially in St. Thomas Aquinas. He also enjoys teaching Biblical theology. His research and teaching are geared toward the integration of theory and practice.
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