El “entrenamiento espiritual” y el crecimiento en la virtud infusa: el modelo de santo Tomás de Aquino en su contexto histórico

This article is a translation of a study by David Elliot, originally published in Studies in Christian Ethics (2023), examining Thomas Aquinas’s account of spiritual training (exercitium spirituale) within its historical context. Elliot shows how Aquinas, drawing on patristic and medieval sources, understood spiritual discipline as essential for the growth of infused virtue through cooperation with divine grace. Far from being an optional asceticism, this practice was integral to Dominican formation and moral theology. The study highlights Aquinas’s distinctive voice among his contemporaries and proposes a renewed appreciation of the formative role of discipline in Christian moral and spiritual life