OUR SAVIOUR AND HIS LOVE FOR US: Catholic Doctrine on the Interior Life of Christ as It Relates to Our Own Interior Life

This book is the Catholic Doctrine on the Interior Life of Christ by Rev. Reginald Garrigou Lagrange, O.P. First published in 1951.

This great 20th century theologian probes the meaning of 32 different topics relating to Our Lord and how they show His love for us.  Each chapter is a marvelous self-contained essay that can stand alone and could easily be a beautiful little booklet by itself.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Reginald Marie Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. (February 21 1877, Auch, France - February 15, 1964, Rome) was a Catholic theologian.  He is generally thought to be the greatest Catholic Thomist of the 20th century.  He taught at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, commonly known as the Angelicum, Rome from 1909 to 1960.

Father Garrigou-Lagrange initially attracted attention when he wrote against the theological movement later called Modernism.  He is also said to be the drafter or "ghostwriter" of Pope Pius XII's 1950 encyclical, Humani Generis, subtitled, "Concerning Some False Opinions Threatening to Undermine the Foundations of Catholic Doctrine."

He is best known for this spiritual theology.  His considered great work is The Three Ages of the Interior Life, in which he promoted the thesis that imbued contemplation and the resulting mystical life are the normal way of holiness of Christian perfection.