On prayer and the contemplative life · Aquinas Thomas
INDEX
Arius, his error regarding the Person of Christ, 161 Athanasius, St., on the chanting of the Psalms, 123 Attention: mental, 225; in prayer, 125-133; three kinds of, 128, 129, 133 Attitudes in prayer, 150, 151 Augustine, St.: St. Thomas's kinship with him in doctrine, 17-19; they are seen in a vision together, 18; the Breviary Hymn to, 26; definition of religion, 28, 29, 30; on _Latvia_, 30; on _Eusebeia_, 31; on abiding in Christ, 32; on the desire of God, 32; on prayer for wealth, 33; on sacrifice, 32, 46; of true worship, 40; of idolatry, 46; on the value of external acts in prayer, 46; of virginity, 50; on "God alone," 54, 92, 108, 142, 197, 189, 203, 219; on the will and the understanding, 57; on true grief, 65; prayer defined, 69; why we should pray, 75; on the prayers of the Church, 76; when we pray we are God's beggars, 79, 110; of those who say "He knows already; why then pray?"
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