The Mendicant-Defence Trilogy

Tradition:: Scholastic Christian
Author:: Thomas Aquinas
Form:: apologetic treatises
Approx. date:: c. 1270 CE

The three treatises in which Aquinas defends the mendicant religious orders (c. 1256-1271): Contra Impugnantes, De Perfectione Vitae Spiritualis, and Contra Retrahentes. English: John Procter's complete translation (An Apology for the Religious Orders, 1902), public domain (pre-1929), verbatim and quotable. Hosted per treatise.

Source context· Greco-Christian stream · Greco-Latin cultural age

Stream: Greco-Christian
Cultural age: Greco-Latin (4th post-Atlantean cultural age)
Composed: c. 1270 CE

1Contra Impugnantes Dei Cultum et Religionem (An Apology for the Religious Orders)94,361 words
2De Perfectione Vitae Spiritualis (On the Perfection of the Spiritual Life)34,273 words
3Contra Doctrinam Retrahentium a Religione (Against Those Who Deter from Religion)28,473 words

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