Tau PublishingA Treatise on Peace
Tractatus de Pace · by Friar Gilbert of Tournai · Early Franciscan Ascetical Writings, Volume XII
translated by Fr. Campion Murray, OFM
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- ISBN, perfect bound
- 978-1-61956-141-0
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- 978-1-61956-784-9
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- 978-1-61956-785-6
- Pages
- 144
- Size
- 5.5 × 8.5 in
- Edition
- Perfect bound first edition, June 2013
- Language
- English
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About this book
“He has made both groups into one and has broken down and destroyed the dividing wall.” — Ephesians 2:14, quoted in the Letter of Dedication
Friar Gilbert of Tournai, a thirteenth-century Franciscan of a noble family of Tournai in present-day Belgium, wrote this treatise for Mary of Dampetra, a Cistercian nun of Flines, “a most illustrious lady of Flanders and daughter of the Countess of Hainaut.”
In twenty-nine short chapters he traces peace from its origin in God, through the peace of the angels and their orders, to earthly and human peace: why the restless soul cannot find it while subject to vices, how true peace is found in the privacy of the heart, cared for, increased, perfected and finally enjoyed.
Translated by Campion Murray, OFM, from the 1925 Quaracchi edition of Ephrem Longpré, OFM, with his preface on Gilbert’s life and writings.
Inside
- Translator’s Preface
- Preface: the life and writings of Friar Gilbert of Tournai
- Letter of Dedication
- Twenty-nine chapters, from “On the origin of peace” to “That perfect peace is enjoyed”
- Appendix: works quoted and Scripture references
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