Aquinas, Education and the East
Aquinas, Education and the East

Author: Thomas Brian Mooney

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-12

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 940075261X

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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.

Whole Person Education in East Asian Universities
Whole Person Education in East Asian Universities

Author: Benedict S. B. Chan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-09-08

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1000435903

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This book provides much new thinking on the phenomenon of whole-person education, a phenomenon which features strongly in East Asian universities, and which aims to develop students intellectually, spiritually, and ethically, to master critical thinking skills, to explore ethical challenges in the surrounding community, and to acquire a broad based foundation of knowledge in humanities, society, and nature. The book considers different approaches to whole person education, including Confucian, Buddhist, and Chinese perspectives, Western philosophy, and religion and interdisciplinary approaches. Overall, the book provides a comprehensive overview of whole person education, why it matters and how to implement it. Moreover, although the examples in the book are from East Asia, the discussion and the values involved are universal, important for the whole world.

The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas
The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas

Author: Brian Davies

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2012-01-25

Total Pages: 606

ISBN-13: 0195326091

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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.

The Trinitarian Christology of St Thomas Aquinas
The Trinitarian Christology of St Thomas Aquinas

Author: Dominic Legge

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0198794193

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The Trinitarian Christology of St Thomas Aquinas brings to light the Trinitarian riches in Thomas Aquinas's Christology. Dominic Legge, O.P, disproves Karl Rahner's assertion that Aquinas divorces the study of Christ from the Trinity, by offering a stimulating re-reading of Aquinas on his own terms, as a profound theologian of the Trinitarian mystery of God as manifested in and through Christ. Legge highlights that, for Aquinas, Christology is intrinsically Trinitarian, in its origin and its principles, its structure, and its role in the dispensation of salvation. He investigates the Trinitarian shape of the incarnation itself: the visible mission of the Son, sent by the Father, implicating the invisible mission of the Holy Spirit to his assumed human nature. For Aquinas, Christ's humanity, at its deepest foundations, incarnates the very personal being of the divine Son and Word of the Father, and hence every action of Christ reveals the Father, is from the Father, and leads back to the Father. This study also uncovers a remarkable Spirit Christology in Aquinas: Christ as man stands in need of the Spirit's anointing to carry out his saving work; his supernatural human knowledge is dependent on the Spirit's gift; and it is the Spirit who moves and guides him in every action, from Nazareth to Golgotha.

Poetic Knowledge
Poetic Knowledge

Author: James S. Taylor

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780791435854

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Reveals the neglected mode of knowing and learning, from Socrates to the middle ages and beyond, that relies more on the integrated powers of sensory experience and intuition, rather than on modern narrow scientific models of education.

Confucian Questions to Augustine
Confucian Questions to Augustine

Author: JunSoo Park

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2020-05-11

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1532654049

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In Confucian Questions to Augustine, Park compares the works of Confucius and Mencius with those of Saint Augustine. His purpose in so doing is to show Confucian Augustinianism as a new theological perspective on Confucian-Christian ethics and Augustinianism by discovering analogies and differences in their respective understandings of the formation of moral self, particularly the acquisition of virtue, and how they believe this leads to happiness. Using the method of inter-textual reasoning, and assuming continuity between Augustine’s early and later works, he compares Confucius and Mencius’s xue, si, li, and yue with Augustine’s moral learning, contemplation, sacrament, and music, respectively. Confucian Augustinianism shows how to enjoy God, follow Jesus, and live in the Holy Spirit.

The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas
The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas

Author: Matthew Levering

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2021-01-14

Total Pages: 753

ISBN-13: 0198798024

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This Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant philosophical and theological reception of Thomas Aquinas over the past 750 years.

Edinburgh Critical History of Middle Ages and Renaissance Philosophy
Edinburgh Critical History of Middle Ages and Renaissance Philosophy

Author: LaZella Andrew LaZella

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2020-05-01

Total Pages: 635

ISBN-13: 1474450830

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Written by a team of leading international scholars, this crucial period of philosophy is examined from the novel perspective of themes and lines of thought which cut across authors, disciplines and national boundaries. This fresh approach will open up new ways for specialists and students to conceptualise the history of medieval and Renaissance thought within philosophy, politics, religious studies and literature. The essays cover concepts and topics that have become central in the continental tradition. They also bring major philosophers - Thomas Aquinas, Averroes, Maimonides and Duns Scotus - into conversation with those not usually considered canonical - Nicholas of Cusa, Marsilius of Padua, Gersonides and Moses Almosnino. Medieval and Renaissance thought is approached with contemporary continental philosophy in view, highlighting the continued richness and relevance of the work from this period.

Habits and Holiness
Habits and Holiness

Author: Ezra Sullivan

Publisher: CUA Press

Published: 2020-11-18

Total Pages: 614

ISBN-13: 0813233291

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"This comprehensive exploration of Thomas Aquinas's theology of habit takes habits in general as a prism for understanding human action and its influences and provides a unique synthesis of Thomistic virtue theory, modern science of habits, and best practices for eliminating bad habits and living good habits"--