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On the Perfection of the Spiritual Life

St. Thomas Aquinas

A defence of the religious state as a state of perfection, against the position of Gerard of Abbeville that perfection consists in the secular clerical life rather than in religious profession.

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Source: English translation by John Procter OP (Burns and Oates, London, 1902, PD), revised by the Aquinas Institute. Mirrored from aquinas.cc. · Latin text from the Leonine / Marietti editions (public domain), mirrored from aquinas.cc.