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Author: Gregory T. Doolan
Publisher: CUA Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0813215234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGregory T. Doolan provides here the first detailed consideration of the divine ideas as causal principles. He examines Thomas Aquinas's philosophical doctrine of the divine ideas and convincingly argues that it is an essential element of his metaphysics
Author: Thomas M. Ward
Publisher: Elements in Religion and Monot
Published: 2020-09-03
Total Pages: 81
ISBN-13: 1108819699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Element defends a version of the classical theory of divine ideas, the containment exemplarist theory of divine ideas. The classical theory holds that God has ideas of all possible creatures, that these ideas partially explain why God's creation of the world is a rational and free personal action, and that God does not depend on anything external to himself for having the ideas he has. The containment exemplarist version of the classical theory holds that God's own nature is the exemplar of all possible creatures, and therefore that God's ideas of possible creatures are in some sense ideas of himself. Containment exemplarism offers a monotheism fit for metaphysics, insofar as it is coherent, simple, and explanatorily powerful; and offers a metaphysics fit for monotheism, insofar as it leaves God truly worthy of the unconditional worship which Christians, along with Jews and Muslims, aspire to offer to God.
Author: Tyler R. Wittman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-11-15
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1108636535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe legacies of Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth remain influential for contemporary theologians, who have increasingly put them into conversation on debated questions over analogy and the knowledge of God. However, little explicit dialogue has occurred between their theologies of God. This book offers one of the first extended analyzes of this fundamental issue, asking how each theologian seeks to confess in fact and in thought God's qualitative distinctiveness in relation to creation. Wittman first examines how they understand the correspondence and distinction between God's being and external acts within an overarching concern to avoid idolatry. Second, he analyzes the kind of relation God bears to creation that follows from these respective understandings. Despite many common goals, Aquinas and Barth ultimately differ on the subject matter of theological reason with consequences for their ability to uphold God's distinctiveness consistently. These mutually informative issues offer some important lessons for contemporary theology.
Author: Andrew Davison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-08
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 1108483283
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a substantial discussion of a central theme in Christian theology - that everything comes from and depends upon God.
Author: Mikko Posti
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-04-20
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9004429727
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Medieval Theories of Divine Providence 1250-1350 Mikko Posti presents a historical and philosophical study of the doctrine of divine providence in 13th- and 14th-century Latin philosophical theology. In addition to offering a fresh and engaging reading of Thomas Aquinas’s ideas concerning providence, Posti focuses on Siger of Brabant, Peter Auriol and Thomas Bradwardine, among others. The book also provides an extended treatment of the relatively little-known 13th-century work Liber de bona fortuna, consisting of Latin translations of chapters found originally in Aristotle’s Ethica Eudemia and Magna moralia. In their treatments of Liber de bona fortuna, the medieval theologians provided philosophically interesting explanations of good fortune and its relationship to divine providence. See inside the book.
Author: Gregory T. Doolan
Publisher: CUA Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0813218861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScholars present studies on key philosophical and historical issues in the field. Though varied, the investigations address three major metaphysical themes: the subject matter of metaphysics, metaphysical aporiae, and philosophical theology.
Author: J. Budziszewski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-09-22
Total Pages: 521
ISBN-13: 1316060942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNatural moral law stands at the center of Western ethics and jurisprudence and plays a leading role in interreligious dialogue. Although the greatest source of the classical natural law tradition is Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Law, the Treatise is notoriously difficult, especially for nonspecialists. J. Budziszewski has made this formidable work luminous. This book - the first classically styled, line-by-line commentary on the Treatise in centuries - reaches out to philosophers, theologians, social scientists, students, and general readers alike. Budziszewski shows how the Treatise facilitates a dialogue between author and reader. Explaining and expanding upon the text in light of modern philosophical developments, he expounds this work of the great thinker not by diminishing his reasoning, but by amplifying it.
Author: Thomas Brian Mooney
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-03-12
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 940075261X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA confluence of scholarly interest has resulted in a revival of Thomistic scholarship across the world. Several areas in the investigation of St. Thomas Aquinas, however, remain under-explored. This volume contributes to two of these neglected areas. First, the volume evaluates the contemporary relevance of St. Thomas's views for the philosophy and practice of education. The second area explored involves the intersections of the Angelic Doctor’s thought and the numerous cultures and intellectual traditions of the East. Contributors to this section examine the reception, creative appropriation, and various points of convergence between St. Thomas and the East.
Author: Thomas Weinandy
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2005-10-20
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780567084842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text evaluates the biblical commentaries of St Thomas Aquinas for the modern age with each commentary examined by an expert. Each chapter focuses on the two or three major themes of its particular commentary and also relates the themes of the commentaries to Aquinas' 'Summa Contra Gentiles' and especially to his 'Suma Theologica'.
Author: Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher: PIMS
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780888442505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers more the reader more aids -- including notes and a commentary -- than does any other translation.
