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Aquinas on Human Self-Knowledge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 255

Aquinas on Human Self-Knowledge

A study of Aquinas's theory of self-knowledge, situated within the mid-thirteenth-century debate and his own maturing thought on human nature.

Medieval Trinitarian Thought from Aquinas to Ockham
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 207

Medieval Trinitarian Thought from Aquinas to Ockham

How can the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit be distinct and yet identical? Prompted by the doctrine of the divine Trinity, this question sparked centuries of lively debate. In the current context of renewed interest in Trinitarian theology, Russell L. Friedman provides the first survey of the scholastic discussion of the Trinity in the 100-year period stretching from Thomas Aquinas' earliest works to William Ockham's death. Tracing two central issues - the attempt to explain how the three persons are distinct from each other but identical as God, and the application to the Trinity of a 'psychological model', on which the Son is a mental word or concept, and the Holy Spirit is love - this volume offers a broad overview of Trinitarian thought in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, along with focused studies of the Trinitarian ideas of many of the period's most important theologians.

Aquinas's Disputed Questions on Evil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

Aquinas's Disputed Questions on Evil

This collection of specially commissioned new essays explores the philosophical issues and subjects of Aquinas's major work.

The Cleansing of the Heart
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

The Cleansing of the Heart

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017
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  • Publisher: CUA Press

Recalling the Biblical and Patristic roots of the Church's sacramental identity, the Second Vatican Council calls the Church the 'visible sacrament' of that unity offered through Christ (LG 9). 'Sacrament' in this sense not only describes who the Church is, but what she does. In this regard, the Council Fathers were careful to establish a strong connection between the symbolic nature of the Church's sacraments and their effect on those who received them. Reginald Lynch is concerned with the cleansing of the heart—a phrase borrowed from St. Augustine and employed by Aquinas, which describes the effects that natural elements such as water or bread have on the human person when taken up by th...

Thomas Aquinas on Bodily Identity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 214

Thomas Aquinas on Bodily Identity

This is a study of the union of matter and the soul in the human being in the thought of the Dominican Thomas Aquinas. At first glance this issue might appear arcane, but it was at the centre of polemic with heresy in the thirteenth century and at the centre of the development of medieval thought more broadly. The book argues that theological issues, especially the need for an identical body to be resurrected at the end of time, but also considerations about Christ's crucifixion and saints' relics, were central to Aquinas's account of how human beings are constituted. The book explores in particular how theological questions and concerns shaped Aquinas's thought on individuality and personal...

Consciousness and Self-Knowledge in Medieval Philosophy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 116

Consciousness and Self-Knowledge in Medieval Philosophy

Contemporary introductions to the theme of self-knowledge too often trace its emergence in the history of philosophy to thinkers such as René Descartes and David Hume. Whereas Descartes conceives of self-knowledge as intimate and first-personal, Hume contends that it is limited to our awareness of our impressions and ideas. In point of fact, self-knowledge is a perennial theme. We may, for instance, trace the lineage of Hume and Descartes on these matters to Aristotle and Plato, respectively. This volume studies philosophical treatments of self-knowledge in the Medieval Latin West. It comprises two sets of papers; the first is taken from an author-meets-critics session on Therese Scarpelli-...

Subjectivity and Selfhood in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

Subjectivity and Selfhood in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-02-23
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book is a collection of studies on topics related to subjectivity and selfhood in medieval and early modern philosophy. The individual contributions approach the theme from a number of angles varying from cognitive and moral psychology to metaphysics and epistemology. Instead of a complete overview on the historical period, the book provides detailed glimpses into some of the most important figures of the period, such as Augustine, Avicenna, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz and Hume. The questions addressed include the ethical problems of the location of one's true self and the proper distribution of labour between desire, passion and reason, and the psychological tasks of accounting for subjective experience and self-knowledge and determining different types of self-awareness.

Augustine's Confessions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

Augustine's Confessions

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Eight new essays examine key philosophical issues raised by Augustine in his Confessions--a masterpiece of world literature. They explore a range of topics including what constitutes the happy or blessed life, the role of philosophical perplexity in the search for truth, and the problems that arise in the attempt to understand minds.

The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 753

The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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

The Wayfarer's End
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

The Wayfarer's End

The Wayfarer’s End follows the human person’s journey to union with God in the theologies of Saint Bonaventure and Saint Thomas Aquinas. It argues that these seminal thinkers of the 13th Century emphasize scriptural notions of divine rewards as ordering principles for the graced movement of human viators to eternal life. Divine rewards emerge as a fundamental category through the study’s emphasis on Thomas and Bonaventure as scriptural commentators and preachers whose work in sacra pagina structures the content of their sacra doctrina. Shawn Colberg places Bonaventure’s and Aquinas’s scriptural, dogmatic, and polemical works into conversation and illumines their mutually edifying d...