The thought of Thomas Aquinas / Brian Davies.
Material type:
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0198264585
- 230/.2/092 20
- B765.T54 D35 1992
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Oriental Theological Seminary New materials shelf | Non-fiction | B765.T54 | D35 1992 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 18495 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [377]-383) and index.
1. The shape of a saint -- Early years -- From student to teacher -- Paris to Naples -- The last phase -- Aquinas's character -- Reading Aquinas today -- 2. Getting to God -- Ways not to get to God -- God and His effects: the five ways -- The existence argument -- Creation -- The beginning of the world -- 3. What God is not -- Not knowing what God is -- The doctrine of divine simplicity: preliminaries -- The doctrine of divine simplicity: details -- 4. Talking about God -- Background to Aquinas -- Aquinas on God-talk -- The doctrine of analogy -- Real and notional relations -- 5. Perfection and goodness -- God is perfect -- God is good -- God and evil -- 6. Ubiquity to eternity -- God's presence in things -- God is changeless -- God is eternal -- Aquinas on eternity today -- 7. Oneness to knowledge -- God is One -- God has power -- God's knowledge -- 8. Will to mercy -- Will in God -- Love in God -- God's justice and mercy.
9. Providence and freedom -- Providence as God's governing of creatures -- Miracles -- Human freedom -- Prayer -- 10. The eternal triangle -- Aquinas and the doctrine of the Trinity -- The Trinity and philosophy -- Processions in the Trinity -- Relations and the Trinity -- The persons taken individually -- 11. Being human -- Me and my body -- Soul and body -- Death and the soul -- Desire and action -- 12. How to be happy -- Happiness and God -- Happiness and need -- Practical reasoning -- Virtues -- Natural law -- 13. How to be holy -- The humans end and human nature -- The start of the human race -- The old law -- The new law -- Grace -- The cause and kinds of grace -- 14. The heart of grace -- Faith -- Hope -- Charity -- 15. God incarnate -- The general nature of Aquinas's Christology -- The union of divinity and humanity -- What was Christ like? -- 16. The life and work of Christ -- The general picture -- Sin and incarnation -- Satisfaction -- Merit -- Justification -- The resurrection and ascension of Christ -- 17. Signs and wonders -- Sacraments -- The crowning sacrament: The Eucharist.
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