The Three Ages of the Interior Life Vol. 1 and 50 similar items

The Three Ages of the Interior Life Vol. 1 paperback, 2023 printing. Book is unread in excellent condition. The Three Ages of the Interior Life by Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. is a classic two-volume work of Catholic spiritual theology, originally written in French (Les trois ages de la vie interieure) and first published in 1938?1939. Garrigou-Lagrange (1877?1964), a prominent French Dominican theologian and long-time professor at the Angelicum in Rome, is widely regarded as one of the leading neo-Thomist thinkers of the 20th century. This book is his masterwork on the spiritual life. It systematically explains the traditional three stages (or ?ages?) of Christian interior growth: the purgative way of beginners, the illuminative way of the proficient, and the unitive way of the perfect. Drawing heavily on St. Thomas Aquinas, St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, and the Church Fathers, it presents the full path of grace, prayer, purification, and mystical union as the normal development of the Christian life rather than something reserved only for a few. It remains one of the most comprehensive and influential modern treatises on ascetical and mystical theology.