Aquinas and the Cry of Rachel: Thomistic Reflections on the Problem of Evil, John F.X. Knasas
Автор: Reinhard Hutter Название: Bound for Beatitude: A Thomistic Study in Eschatology and Ethics ISBN: 0813236304 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813236308 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4383.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Bound for Beatitude is about St. Thomas Aquinas’s theology of beatitude and the journey thereto. Consequently, the work’s topic is the meaning and purpose of human life embedded in that of the whole cosmos. This study is not an antiquarian exercise in the thought of some sundry medieval thinker, but an exercise of ressourcement in the philosophical and theological wisdom of one of the most profound theologians of the Catholic Church, one whom the Church has canonised, granted the title "Doctor of the Church," and for a long time regarded as the common doctor. This exercise of ressourcement takes its methodological cues from the common doctor; hence, it is an integrated exercise of philosophical, dogmatic, and moral theology. Its specific theological topic, the ultimate human end, perfect happiness, beatitude, and the journey thereto-stands at the very heart of St. Thomas’s theology. Far from being pass?, his theology of beatitude is of urgent pertinence as the crisis of humanity and of creation and the exile of God seems to approach its apogee.By way of a presentation, interpretation, and defense of Thomas Aquinas’s doctrine of beatitude and the journey thereto, Bound for Beatitude advances an argument based on four theses: (1) The loss of a theology of beatitude has greatly impoverished contemporary theology. In order to succeed and flourish, theology must recover a sound teleological orientation. (2) In order to recover a sound teleological orientation, theology must recover metaphysics as its privileged instrument. (3) Thomas Aquinas provides a still pertinent model for how theology might achieve these goals in a metaphysically profound theology of beatitude and the beatific vision. Finally, (4) Aquinas’s rich and sophisticated account of the virtues charts the journey to beatitude in a way that still has analytic force and striking relevance in the early twenty-first century.
Автор: Jason T. Eberl Название: Thomistic Principles and Bioethics ISBN: 0415654572 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415654579 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8573.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Alongside a revival of interest in Thomas Aquinas` thought (Thomism) in philosophy, this book reveals its contemporary relevance when addressing certain complex, morally difficult, issues in bioethics.
Автор: Jensen Steven J. Название: Sin: A Thomistic Psychology ISBN: 0813230330 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813230337 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4383.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: If the human soul is made for good, then how do we choose evil? On the other hand, perhaps the human soul is not made for good. Perhaps the magnitude of human depravity reveals that the human soul may directly choose evil. Notably, Thomas Aquinas rejects this explanation for the prevalence of human sin. He insists that in all our desires we seek what is good. How, then, do we choose evil? Only by mistaking evil for good. This solution to the difficulty, however, leads Aquinas into another conundrum. How can we be held responsible for sins committed under a misunderstanding of the good? The sinner, it seems, has simply made an intellectual blunder. Sin has become an intellectual defect rather than a depravity of will and desire.Sin: A Thomistic Psychology grapples with these difficulties. A solution to the problem must address a host of issues. Does the ultimate good after which we all strive have unity, or is it simply a collection of basic goods? What is venial sin? What momentous choice must a child make in his first moral act? In what way do passion, a habitually evil will, and ignorance cause human beings to sin? What is the first cause of moral evil? Do human beings have free will to determine themselves to particular actions? The discussion of these topics focuses upon the interplay of reason, will, and the emotions, examining the inner workings of our moral deliberations. Ultimately, the book reveals how the failure to maintain balance in our deliberations subverts our fidelity to the one true good.
Автор: Jensen Steven J. Название: The Human Person: A Beginner`s Thomistic Psychology ISBN: 0813231523 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813231525 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4383.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Human Person presents a brief introduction to the human mind, the soul, immortality, and free will. While delving into the thought of Thomas Aquinas, it addresses contemporary topics, such as skepticism, mechanism, animal language research, and determinism. Steven J. Jensen probes the primal questions of human nature. Are human beings free or determined? Is the capacity to reason distinctive to human beings or do animals also have some share of reason? Have animals really been taught to use language? The Human Person touches on topics that bear upon the very fabric of the universe. Are human beings merely well-ordered collections of chemicals or do they have a soul that gives them life and understanding? Is there any element in human beings that survives death? Can human minds get in touch with the objective world or just forever dwell in the domain of their subjective experiences? The book closes by considering the most fundamental question of all: are human beings merely cosmic accidents with no purpose or is there some meaning to human life? In this book, beginners of philosophy will learn the wonders of their own nature by studying Aquinas's thought on the human person.
Описание: But too often these discussions fail to consider, in their agonizing detail, situations where there is a choice between conflicting values, conflicting loyalties, conflicting ideas and duties, each of which has a claim to recognition.
Описание: Is the portrait of God revealed in Scripture fundamentally intelligible? The biblical accounts of God reveal seemingly contradictory themes: God's holiness and narratives telling of his anger; the Divine Omnipotence faced with the Impossible; the suffering Christ upon the Cross and the transcendent Trinity of Persons in God; the unique Savior and the universality of God's salvific will; and so forth. How are we to hold together all of this data without denying any aspect of the mystery of God? Must we give into our ambient culture's sense that the biblical God cannot be taken seriously by truly discerning and rational minds when they try to understand "the Divine"? Or, in the midst of this apparent contradiction, can we find the lines of harmony in the revealed mysteries?
In Divine Speech in Human Words, Fr. Emmanuel Durand unties some of the knots that face us when we reflect on the God of biblical Revelation. In each of the essays gathered here, Fr. Durand sympathetically articulates the tensions and apparent contradictions experienced by contemporary minds as they strive to understand the revealed truth of God. A whole host of topics are covered in this volume: the Cross and the revelation of the Trinity; God's holiness and transcendence; divine immutability and the sorrow of a loving God; Divine Providence and human prayer; the fatherhood of God and eschatology; Christ's way of life; and many others.
Drawing philosophical insights from the Thomistic tradition as his intellectual tools, Fr. Durand nonetheless emphasizes the importance of a properly theological mode of reflection, allowing these issues to be illuminated by the revealed truth of Sacred Scripture. Thus, for each of these difficult topics, he shows that a vital theological response must not limit itself to mere logical rigor but, rather, requires metaphysical insight and, above all, sapiential appreciation of God's revealed word. With such instruments in hand, each essay approaches the tensions of biblical revelation with an eager readiness to show how a thoughtful Thomistic practice of biblical theology can guide faith as it seeks an understanding of both contemporary and perennial theological problems.
Описание: In his The Degrees of Knowledge, Science and Wisdom, Philosophy of Nature, and a number of other texts, the Thomist philosopher Jacques Maritain engaged in lively reflection on the light which Thomism can shed on the nature of the sciences, both in their methodologies as well as in the metaphysical presuppositions on which they are based. Such considerations were part of his larger desire to reinvigorate contemporary Catholic philosophical thought, applying the wisdom of the Thomist school to topics of burning contemporary relevance. Some of his positions concerning such matters related to the “philosophy of science” placed him in opposition to other Thomist schools of thought, in particular the so-called “Laval” school of Thomism as well as that emanating from the Dominican River Forest studium in Illinois. Nonetheless, on further reflection, one can see that these various sub-branches of the larger Thomist tree all have much in common as regards their desire to remain rigorously Thomist while being in active dialogue with the methodologies and discoveries of contemporary scientific culture. This volume, comprised of original essays written by sixteen scholars, seeks to continue this vein of reflection. Written from a generally, though not exclusively, Thomist perspective, these essays are dedicated to the topics of scientific methodology, specific topics in natural philosophy, the question of evolution, the relationship between natural philosophy and moral knowledge, and topics pertinent to the broader domain of the social sciences. Approaching these various issues from a number of different angles, this volume carries into the present the dialogue and debate concerning the philosophy of science which was of such great importance to Maritain and to many Thomists of his era.The contributors to this volume are: Mary Prudence Allen, RSM, Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, OP, John G. Brungardt, John C. Cahalan, Stephen Chamberlain, Megan Furman, Marie I. George, Heidi Giebel, James G. Hanink, Timothy Kearns, Gregory Kerr, James Murdoch, Jessica Murdoch, Thomas K. Nelson, Catherine Peters, Michael D. Torre.
Part I. Chapter 1. Religious Interiorities (Olga Louchakova-Schwartz).- Chapter 2. Reconnecting the Self to the Divine: The Body's Role in Religious Experience (Shogo Tanaka).- Chapter 3. Crystallizing Metaphysics Through the Invocation of the Divine Name and Mantra in Sufi Gnosis and Hindu Non- Dualism (Patrick Laude).- Chapter 4. Epochй and Appresentation: A New Way of Looking at the Sacred and the Profane in Religious Experience (Michael Barber).- Chapter 5. Concluding Reflections: Passivity and Activity in Religious Experience (Olga Louchakova-Schwartz).- Part II. Chapter 6. The Other as Trace of Infinity. Phenomenology and Religious Experience in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas (Massimo Mezzanzanica).- Chapter 7. Toward a Nondogmatic Phenomenology of Religion: On Husserl, Derrida, and the Gospels (Peter Costello).- Chapter 8. Living the Epochй A Phenomenological Realism of Religious Experience (Sam Mickey).- Chapter 9. Concluding Reflections: Religious Experience and Transcendence (or the Absence of Such) (Olga Louchakova-Schwartz).- Part III. Chapter 10. Revelation of God as Immanent Trinity in Jean-Luc Marion's Phenomenology (Adrian-razvan Sandru).- Chapter 11. A Kierkegaardian Phenomenology of Divine Presence (Joshua Cockayne).- Chapter 12. Sight and Sacrament: Nature, Liturgy, and Earthly Life (Christopher DuPee).- Chapter 13. Concluding Reflections: Revelation and the Region(s) of Religious Intuition (Olga Louchakova-Schwartz).- Part IV. Chapter 14. On Vocation and Identity in Western Mysticism (Jana Trajtelova).- Chapter 15. Mystical Experience as Existential Knowledge in Raimon Panikkar's Navasūtrāni (Leonardo Marcato).- Chapter 16. Religious Experience as Experience of Repentance (Bianca Bellini).- Chapter 17. Transformative Impact: How to phenomenologically Approach a Religious Conversion (Martin Nitsche). Chapter 18. Concluding Reflections: Religious Experience and the Practice of Psychology (Olga Louchakova-Schwartz).
Part I. Chapter 1. Religious Interiorities (Olga Louchakova-Schwartz).- Chapter 2. Reconnecting the Self to the Divine: The Body's Role in Religious Experience (Shogo Tanaka).- Chapter 3. Crystallizing Metaphysics Through the Invocation of the Divine Name and Mantra in Sufi Gnosis and Hindu Non- Dualism (Patrick Laude).- Chapter 4. Epochй and Appresentation: A New Way of Looking at the Sacred and the Profane in Religious Experience (Michael Barber).- Chapter 5. Concluding Reflections: Passivity and Activity in Religious Experience (Olga Louchakova-Schwartz).- Part II. Chapter 6. The Other as Trace of Infinity. Phenomenology and Religious Experience in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas (Massimo Mezzanzanica).- Chapter 7. Toward a Nondogmatic Phenomenology of Religion: On Husserl, Derrida, and the Gospels (Peter Costello).- Chapter 8. Living the Epochй A Phenomenological Realism of Religious Experience (Sam Mickey).- Chapter 9. Concluding Reflections: Religious Experience and Transcendence (or the Absence of Such) (Olga Louchakova-Schwartz).- Part III. Chapter 10. Revelation of God as Immanent Trinity in Jean-Luc Marion's Phenomenology (Adrian-razvan Sandru).- Chapter 11. A Kierkegaardian Phenomenology of Divine Presence (Joshua Cockayne).- Chapter 12. Sight and Sacrament: Nature, Liturgy, and Earthly Life (Christopher DuPee).- Chapter 13. Concluding Reflections: Revelation and the Region(s) of Religious Intuition (Olga Louchakova-Schwartz).- Part IV. Chapter 14. On Vocation and Identity in Western Mysticism (Jana Trajtelova).- Chapter 15. Mystical Experience as Existential Knowledge in Raimon Panikkar's Navasūtrāni (Leonardo Marcato).- Chapter 16. Religious Experience as Experience of Repentance (Bianca Bellini).- Chapter 17. Transformative Impact: How to phenomenologically Approach a Religious Conversion (Martin Nitsche). Chapter 18. Concluding Reflections: Religious Experience and the Practice of Psychology (Olga Louchakova-Schwartz).
Автор: Legge, Dominic (assistant Professor, Pontifical Faculty Of The Immaculate Conception, Dominican House Of Studies; Assistant Director, Thomistic Instit Название: Trinitarian christology of st thomas aquinas ISBN: 0198829094 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198829096 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4513.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This work brings to light the Trinitarian riches in Thomas Aquinas`s Christology. Legge 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.
W. Norris Clarke has chosen the fifteen essays in this collection, five of which appear here for the first time, as the most significant of the more than seventy he has written over the course of a long career. Clarke is known for his development of a Thomistic personalism. To be a person, according to Saint Thomas, is to take conscious self-possession of one's own being, to be master of oneself. But our incarnate mode of being human involves living in a body whose life unfolds across time, and is inevitably dispersed across time. If we wish to know fully who we are, we need to assimilate and integrate this dispersal, so that our lives become a coherent story. In addition to the existentialist thought of Etienne Gilson and others, Clarke draws on the Neoplatonic dimension of participation. Existence as act and participation have been the central pillars of his metaphysical thought, especially in its unique manifestation in the human person. The essays collected here cover a wide range of philosophical, ethical, religious, and aesthetic topics. Through them sounds a very personal voice, one that has inspired generations of students and scholars.
Описание: Readers interested in the origin and development of Wojty?a's early thought on marriage, sexuality and the family, or on Aquinas's metaphysical, moral and teleological suppositions, or on his teaching on marriage, will find rich resources, clear prose and illuminating exegesis, calmly and accessibly presented. The treatment of Aquinas's theology of marriage is the best I have read.
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