Featuring essays from both specialists in Aquinas' thought and constructive contemporary theologians, this Companion provides an accessible, comprehensive guide to his main mature theological work, the Summa Theologiae. The authors demonstrate how to read the text effectively and how to relate it to past and current theological issues.
Throughout Europe, the exercise of justice rests on judicial independence by impartiality. In Reason and Fairness Ulrike Müßig reveals the combination of ordinary judicial competences with procedural rationality, together with the complementarity of procedural and substantive justice, as the foundation for the ‘rule of law’ in court constitution, far earlier than the advent of liberal constitutionalism. The ECHR fair trial guarantee reads as the historically-grown consensus of the functional judicial independence. Both before historical and contemporary courts, justice is done and seen to be done by means of judgements, whose legal requirements combine the equation of ‘fair’ and ‘legal’ with that of ‘legal’ and ‘rational.’ This legal determinability of the judge’s fair attitude amounts to the specific (rational) European idea of justice.
For the first time, the reader can have a synoptic view of the reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, East and West, in a multicultural perspective. All the major themes of Pythagoreanism are addressed, from mathematics, number philosophy and metaphysics to ethics and religious thought.
Joachim of Fiore (c.1135-1202) remains one of the most fascinating and enigmatic figures of medieval Christianity. In his own time, he was an influential advisor to the mighty and powerful, widely respected for his prophetic exegesis and decoding of the apocalypse. In modern times, many thinkers, from Thomas Müntzer to Friedrich Engels, have hailed him as a prophet of progress and revolution. Even present-day theologians, philosophers and novelists were inspired by Joachim’s vision of a Third Age of the Holy Spirit. However, at no time was Joachim an uncontroversial figure. Soon after his death, the church authorities became suspicious about the explosive potential of his theology, while more recently historians held him accountable for the fateful progressivism of Western Civilization. Contributors are: Frances Andrews, Valeria De Fraja, Alfredo Gatto, Peter Gemeinhardt, Sven Grosse, Massimo Iiritano, Bernard McGinn, Matthias Riedl, and Brett Edward Whalen.
A 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.
Focusing on Gisbertus Voetius’s views on God, freedom, and contingency, Andreas J. Beck offers the first monograph in English that is entirely devoted to the theology of this leading figure of early modern Reformed scholasticism.
This volume presents an introduction to Aquinas and a guide to his thinking on almost all the major topics on which he wrote. The book begins with an account of Aquinas's life and the historical context of his thought. The subsequent sections address topics that Aquinas himself discussed. The final sections of the volume address the development of Aquinas's thought and its historical influence.
Die Summa Theologica (übersetzt "Zusammenfassung der Theologie"), oft einfach als Summa bezeichnet, ist das bekannteste Werk von Thomas von Aquin (1225-1274), einem scholastischen Theologen und Kirchendoktor. Sie stellt ein Kompendium der wichtigsten theologischen Lehren der katholischen Kirche dar, das als Leitfaden für Theologiestudenten, Seminaristen und Laien dienen soll. Die Themen der "Summa", in denen die Argumentation für fast alle Inhalte der christlichen Theologie im Abendland dargelegt wird, folgen dem folgenden Zyklus: Gott, die Schöpfung, der Mensch, die Bestimmung des Menschen, Christus, die Sakramente und zurück zu Gott. Obwohl sie unvollendet ist, gehört die "Summa" nicht nur zu den Klassikern der Philosophiegeschichte, sondern ist eines der einflussreichsten Werke der abendländischen Literatur und bleibt Aquins vollkommenste Schrift, die Frucht seiner reifen Jahre, in der sich das Denken seines ganzen Lebens verdichtet. Der Autor zitiert immer wieder christliche, muslimische, hebräische und heidnische Quellen, darunter die Heilige Schrift, Aristoteles, Augustinus von Hippo, Avicenna, Averroes, Al-Ghazali, Boethius, Johannes von Damaskus, Paulus der Apostel, Pseudo-Dionysius, Maimonides, Anselm von Canterbury, Platon, Cicero und einige andere. Dies ist Band fünf von zehn mit den Quaestiones 67 - 114 der Secundae Partis.
