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New book is practical guide — grounded in thought of St. Thomas Aquinas — that invites readers to reflect on how their words shape their interior lives.
In his new book, Training the Tongue and Growing Beyond Sins of Speech (Emmaus Road), Dominican Father Gregory Pine freely admits that ever since he can remember he has struggled to achieve “purity of speech.”
With disarming candor, Father Pine recounts his own past verbal missteps: a white lie he told to avoid blame, a wounding remark he made out of a desire to seem clever, the time he talked disparagingly about a friend, his overzealous correction of others, and the “rough-and-tumble” banter he was slow to realize might be offensive to those outside the East Coast suburb where he grew up.
Knowing that the author, a professor of dogmatic and moral theology at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., has stumbled in these ways makes it easier for readers to take stock of their own sins of speech. Yet Training the Tongue isn’t simply a jeremiad against “bad talk.” Rather, it is practical guide — grounded in the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas — that invites readers to reflect on how their words shape their interior lives.
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In his new book, Training the Tongue and Growing Beyond Sins of Speech (Emmaus Road), Dominican Father Gregory Pine freely admits that ever since he can remember he has struggled to achieve “purity of speech.”
With disarming candor, Father Pine recounts his own past verbal missteps: a white lie he told to avoid blame, a wounding remark he made out of a desire to seem clever, the time he talked disparagingly about a friend, his overzealous correction of others, and the “rough-and-tumble” banter he was slow to realize might be offensive to those outside the East Coast suburb where he grew up.
Knowing that the author, a professor of dogmatic and moral theology at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., has stumbled in these ways makes it easier for readers to take stock of their own sins of speech. Yet Training the Tongue isn’t simply a jeremiad against “bad talk.” Rather, it is practical guide — grounded in the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas — that invites readers to reflect on how their words shape their interior lives.
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Dominican Father Gregory Pine Addresses Theology of Speech and ‘Training the Tongue’
New book is practical guide — grounded in thought of St. Thomas Aquinas — that invites readers to reflect on how their words shape their interior lives.
