Aquinas Platonism And The Knowledge Of God

Author : Patrick Quinn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015037474312

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Aquinas, Platonism, and the Knowledge of God by Patrick Quinn Pdf

Aquinas has been traditionally seen as the Christian thinker who was opposed to Platonism and predominantly influenced by the philosophy of Aristotle. In this study, Patrick Quinn argues that the most important aspects of Aquinas' theory of knowledge can only be properly understood when his Platonism is taken into account. Although he agreed with Aristotle that human knowledge is obtained from sensory-based experience, Thomas also insisted that the human mind functions at its best when it acts independently of the senses. This occurs at the most sublime level when the mind is divinely enlightened when God's essence is made visible.

Author : Dewey J. Hoitenga
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791405907

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Faith and Reason from Plato to Plantinga by Dewey J. Hoitenga Pdf

Analyse: Contient un chapitre sur la connaissance de Dieu dans la théologie de Calvin.

Author : Stephen Gersh,Maarten J.F.M. Hoenen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110908497

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The Platonic Tradition in the Middle Ages by Stephen Gersh,Maarten J.F.M. Hoenen Pdf

This collection of essays delineates the history of the rather disparate intellectual tradition usually labeled as "Platonic" or "Neoplatonic". In chronological order, the book covers the most eminent philosophic schools of thought within that tradition. The most important terms of the Platonic tradition are studied together with a discussion of their semantic implications, the philosophical and theological claims associated with the terms, the sources that furnish the terms, and the intellectual traditions aligned with or opposed to them. The contributors thereby provide a vivid intellectual map of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. Contributions are written in English or German.

Author : Aphrodite Alexandrakis,Nicholas J. Moutafakis
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791452794

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Neoplatonism and Western Aesthetics by Aphrodite Alexandrakis,Nicholas J. Moutafakis Pdf

Shows how the aesthetic views of Plotinus and later Neoplatonists have played a role in the history of Western art.

Author : Auguste Gratry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : God
ISBN : HARVARD:AH5B1C

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Guide to the Knowledge of God by Auguste Gratry Pdf

Author : Leo Elders
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004091564

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The Philosophical Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas by Leo Elders Pdf

The philosophical theology of St. Thomas Aquinas is the crowning piece of his metaphysics. Leo J. Elders studies it against the background of the attempts of the great philoso- phers of the past to penetrate deeper into the knowledge of God. While the Introduction treats the nature of philosophical theology according to Aquinas, Chapter One presents a concise history of the idea of God in Western philosophical thinking. Chapters Two and Three deal with the question of the cognoscibility of God and the Five Ways of St. Thomas. New solutions are proposed of some difficulties in the Third and Fourth Ways. The attributes of God are studied in the order of the Summa theologiae I . Chapter Seven considers the grammar of God-language. The following chapters examine divine knowledge, foreknowledge of future events, divine will and providence as well as creation. The last chapter deals with the problem of the co-existence of God and finite creatures. This study shows that the philosophical theology of St. Thomas Aquinas is a coherent whole of impressive depth and beauty. It has its basis in our daily experience of the world and the general principles of being, but its conclusions reach the summits of negative theology.

Author : C. Marvin Pate
Publisher : Kregel Academic
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780825489389

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From Plato to Jesus by C. Marvin Pate Pdf

Discover philosophy's impact on Christianity in this new theology textbook

Author : Tina Beattie
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191611834

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Theology after Postmodernity by Tina Beattie Pdf

Theology after Postmodernity is a ground-breaking study that has the capacity to transform the relationship between psychoanalytic theory and Christian theology. Reading the theology of Thomas Aquinas in close engagement with the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, Tina Beattie shows how Thomism exerted a formative influence on Lacan, and she also shows how a Lacanian approach can bring rich new insights to Thomas's theology. A growing number of English-speaking scholars now recognize the extent to which twentieth century French theorists and philosophers were influenced by medieval theology, and there have been several studies of Jacques Lacan's Thomism. However, this is the first study published in English to bring a Lacanian feminist perspective to bear on the theology of Thomas Aquinas. Focusing on the centrality of desire in Thomas's theology and Lacan's psychoanalytic theory, Beattie follows Lacan along an overgrown and often hidden path through the changing configurations of desire, gender, and knowledge from their Aristotelian formation in the medieval universities to their fragmentation in the collapse of modernity's visions and values. Beattie offers a penetrating critique of Thomas's Aristotelianism, but she also excavates the mystical treasures within his theology. This enables her to show how Thomas's God remains an unconscious but potent influence in the shaping of modern western thought, and to ask what transformations might be needed in order to bring about a Thomism for our times. Probing beneath the surface of Thomas's Summa Theologiae and other writings, she brings to light the Other of Thomas's One God - an incarnate, maternal Trinity who emerges when Thomas's Aristotelian ontotheology is suspended and the more neglected aspects of his doctrinal and theological insights are allowed to emerge. Lacan makes possible a renewed Thomism which offers a rich theology of creation, incarnation, and redemption capable of responding to some of the most urgent and far-reaching challenges that questions of gender, nature, and God pose to Christian theological language in its classical and postmodern formations.

Author : John Dillon,Marie-Elise Zovko
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783050061115

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Platonism and Forms of Intelligence by John Dillon,Marie-Elise Zovko Pdf

The volume contains a collection of papers presented at the International Symposium, which took place in Hvar, Croatia, in 2006. In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in the study of Plato, Platonism and Neoplatonism. Taking the position that it is of vital importance to establish an ongoing dialogue among scientists, artists, academics, theologians and philosophers concerning pressing issues of common interest to humankind, this collection of papers endeavours to bridge the gap between contemporary research in Platonist philosophy and other fields where insights gained from the study of Plato and Platonist philosophy can be of consequence and benefit. Authors: Werner Beierwaltes, Luc Brisson, Amber Carpenter, John Dillon, Jonathan Doner, Franco Ferrari, Francesco Fronterotta, F.A.J. de Haas, Aaron Hughes, Byron Kaldis, Daniel Kolak, Thomas Leinkauf, Dionysis Mentzeniotis, Jean-Marc Narbonne, Giannis Stamatellos, Vladimir Stoupel, Patrick Quinn, Jure Zovko and Marie-Élize Zovko

Author : Maha El-Kaisy,John Dillon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047429678

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The Afterlife of the Platonic Soul by Maha El-Kaisy,John Dillon Pdf

This volume of essays presents a selection of studies in the ways in which Platonist psychology is adapted to the needs of thinkers in the three great religious traditions of later antiquity, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The authors are all acknowledged experts in their own fields, as well as being familiar with the Platonic tradition.

Author : Aidan Nichols
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781409431626

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Lost in Wonder by Aidan Nichols Pdf

This book explores the liturgy as the manifestation by cultic signs of Christian revelation, the 'setting' of the Liturgy in terms of architectural space, iconography and music, and the poetic response which the revelation the liturgy carries can produce. Nichols makes the case for Christianity's capacity to inspire high culture - both in principle and through well-chosen historical examples which draw on the best in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Anglicanism.

Author : Fr Aidan Nichols O P
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781409481584

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Lost in Wonder by Fr Aidan Nichols O P Pdf

This book explores the Liturgy as the manifestation by cultic signs of Christian revelation, the 'setting' of the Liturgy in terms of architectural space, iconography and music, and the poetic response which the revelation the Liturgy carries can produce. The conclusion offers a synthetic statement of the unity of religion, cosmology and art. Aidan Nichols makes the case for Christianity's capacity to inspire high culture - both in principle and through well-chosen historical examples which draw on the best in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Anglicanism.

Author : Aidan Nichols O. P.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317103271

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Lost in Wonder by Aidan Nichols O. P. Pdf

This book explores the Liturgy as the manifestation by cultic signs of Christian revelation, the 'setting' of the Liturgy in terms of architectural space, iconography and music, and the poetic response which the revelation the Liturgy carries can produce. The conclusion offers a synthetic statement of the unity of religion, cosmology and art. Aidan Nichols makes the case for Christianity's capacity to inspire high culture - both in principle and through well-chosen historical examples which draw on the best in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Anglicanism.

Author : A.B. Collins
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401020220

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The Secular is Sacred by A.B. Collins Pdf

This book presents a philosophical position examined philosophically. Although it does not go beyond the confines ofFicino's perspective and is governed by standards of historical accuracy, it makes explicit in its explanation ofFicino's text the enduring philosophical questions which are at issue there. True, the book examines in some detail Ficino's relation to his Platonic and Scholastic sources, and this is an issue of primary interest to those who study the history of culture or the his torical development of philosophy. However, in Ficino's thought, this issue is also a philosophical issue. Ficino chooses Platonism as his guide because this philosophy retains an explicit and essential orientation to religion. When he takes Platonism as the primary instance of philoso phy, he is taking a stand on the nature of philosophy itself. Philosophy necessarily points toward the divinity and hence is necessarily related to the veneration and worship of its object. Christian theology joins Platonic philosophy in this movement toward God, developing more completely the implications of its fundamental insights. And the 1 "splendor of Christian theology" is Thomas Aquinas. Therefore, to examine the relationship between Platonism and Thomism in Ficino's thought is to examine Ficino's position on the unity of philosophy and theology. Scholars writing about Ficino have pointed to three major influences on his thought. The influence of Plato and the neo-Platonists, of course, is readily recognized.

Author : Sangkeun Kim
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0820471305

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Strange Names of God by Sangkeun Kim Pdf

One of the most precarious and daunting tasks for sixteenth-century European missionaries in the cross-cultural mission frontiers was translating the name of «God» (Deus) into the local language. When the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) introduced the Chinese term Shangti as the semantic equivalent of Deus, he made one of the most innovative cross-cultural missionary translations. Ricci's employment of Shangti was neither a simple rewording of a Chinese term nor the use of a loan-word, but was indeed a risk-taking «identification» of the Christian God with the Confucian Most-High, Shangti. Strange Names of God investigates the historical progress of the semantic configuration of Shangti as the divine name of the Christian God in China by focusing on Chinese intellectuals' reaction to the strangely translated Chinese name of God.