The Thomist Tradition

Brian J. Shanley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2002
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4020-0078-2 (ISBN)

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The Thomistic tradition takes it name from the thirteenth-century religious thinker and saint who is its source and inspiration: the Dominican Friar Thomas 1 Aquinas. Aquinas understood himself to be a theologian, and that is what he was. This obvious biographical fact needs to be underlined at the beginning, however, 2 since it has often since been lost sight of in treatments of his thought. The reason for this is that Aquinas also developed a powerful, innovative, and comprehensive philosophy which has proved to be at least as perennial, if not more so, than the theological synthesis that it was originally designed to serve. His followers have kept both strains of his thought alive until this day, but not always combining the same dual expertise. Theology and philosophy have since become more distinct, and as each has fragmented into sub-disciplines of academic specialization, it becomes harder and harder for anyone to master the thought of Aquinas as a as evidenced by the whole. Yet grasping the whole is essential to grasping the part, master work of Aquinas's mind: his Summa theologiae. You cannot understand any part of the Summa unless you understand its place within the whole, and much violence has been done to Aquinas's thought by abstracting it from the larger context in order to present it in discrete units.

1. Twentieth-Century Thomisms.- 2. Religious Knowledge: The Relationship between Faith and Reason.- 3. Religious Language.- 4. Religion and Science.- 5. Evil and Suffering.- 6. Religion and Morality.- 7. Human Nature and Destiny.- 8. Conception of the Absolute.- 9. Religious Pluralism.- Conclusion.- Name Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.1.2002
Reihe/Serie	Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion ; 2
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 240 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	1-4020-0078-2 / 1402000782
ISBN-13	978-1-4020-0078-2 / 9781402000782
Zustand	Neuware