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Iribarren, Isabel. "The Trinitarian controversy between Durandus of St Pourcain and the Dominican Order in the early fourteenth century : the limits of theological dissent." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365635.
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Raffray, Matthieu. "« De Relativis » : La doctrine des relatifs jusqu’aux synthèses d’Albert le Grand et de Thomas d’Aquin." Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040095.
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Le primat de la relation est une caractéristique fondamentale des philosophies contemporaines comme des évolutions récentes de la théologie : le but de cette étude est de retracer les développements de la notion de relation jusqu’aux grandes synthèses théologiques du 13è siècle, afin d’évaluer les fondements historiques et la légitimité conceptuelle des relationalismes contemporains. Après avoir étudié la naissance d’une ontologie des êtres relatifs chez Platon et Aristote, ainsi qu’à travers les ambiguïtés de leurs transmissions, nous montrons comment les théologiens de l’Antiquité ont exploité ces fondements philosophiques, autour des modèles de « l’attribution différenciée » chez Augustin et de « l’accidentalité différenciée » chez Boèce. Au 12è siècle, ces modèles antiques ont à leur tour donné lieu à un changement de paradigme, au sujet de la predicatio in divinis, de Gilbert de Poitiers jusqu’à Pierre Lombard. Nous centrons alors notre étude sur les synthèses sententiaires d’Albert le Grand et de Thomas d’Aquin, qui exploitent l’un et l’autre la notion comme l’élément clef d’une description unitaire et structurée de l’édifice théologique. Albert emploie une notion typiquement aristotélicienne de la relation comme instrument pour édifier une théologie cohérente et rationnelle ; Thomas développe ces intuitions albertiennes et met en œuvre une vue ordonnée du Monde dans ses rapports avec Dieu, dont la condition, contrairement à de nombreuses lectures thomistes, est la stricte accidentalité de l’être relatif. A l’issue de ce parcours historique, on aura donc mis en évidence la tentation platonisante qui constitue la source conceptuelle des relationalismes contemporainsThe primacy of relation is a fundamental characteristic of contemporary philosophies as well as recent evolutions of Christian theology: the goal of this study is to describe the first developments of the notion of relation up to the great theological synthesis of the 13th century, in order to evaluate the historical foundations and the conceptual validity of the contemporary “relationalisms”. After studying the birth of the ontology of relative beings by Plato and Aristotle, as well as through the ambiguities of their transmissions, we show how the theologians of Antiquity exploited those philosophical sources using two models: the “differentiated attribution” with Augustine, and the “differentiated accidentality” with Boethius. During the 12th century, those two antique models became in their turns the origin of a change of paradigm on the problem of predicatio in divinis, from Gilbert of Poitiers to Peter Lombard. We then center our study on the sentential synthesis of Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas, who both exploited the notion of relation as a key-element of a united and well-structured description of their theological thought. Albert uses a typical Aristotelian notion of relation as a tool for building a coherent and rational theology; Thomas develops those albertian intuitions and organizes a well-ordered view of the World in its relations to God, whose condition, contrary to many thomistic interpretations, is a strictly accidental conception of the relative beings. At the end of this historical path, we will then have shown the Platonist temptation which constitutes the conceptual source of the contemporary “relationalisms”
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Duby, Steven J. "Divine simplicity : a dogmatic account." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5935.
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This thesis offers a constructive account of the doctrine of divine simplicity in Christian theology. In its methodology, the thesis aims to present this divine perfection as an implicate of the scriptural portrayal of God, to draw upon the insights and conceptual resources of Thomas Aquinas and various Reformed orthodox theologians, and to respond to some objections to divine simplicity. The focus on exegetical elaboration of biblical teaching and the use of Thomas and the Reformed orthodox distinguish this work from a number of recent accounts of God in both systematic theology and analytic philosophy. The case for God's simplicity is made by examining God's singularity, aseity, immutability, infinity, and act of creation in Holy Scripture and then tracing the ways in which these descriptions of God imply that he is (negatively) not composed of parts. Rather, he is (positively) actus purus and really identical with his own essence, existence, and attributes, each of which is identical with the whole being of the triune God considered under some aspect. In light of the constructive work, this study then addresses the three most pressing objections to divine simplicity: (1) that it denigrates God's revelation of his many attributes in the economy; (2) that it eliminates God's freedom in creating the world and acting in history; and (3) that it does not cohere with the doctrine of the Trinity.
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Shimek, John Paul. "Thomas Aquinas on just war." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p029-0661.
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Sanders, Jennifer Marie. "The Trinitarian Telos of the Summa theologiae: Thomas’s Application of the Aristotelian Ordo Disciplinae to Sacra Doctrina in light of his Augustinian Heritage." Thesis, Boston College, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107650.
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Thesis advisor: Dominic DoyleI argue for a performative reading of the Summa theologiae in relation to Thomas Aquinas’s coordination of the trinitarian processions with the trinitarian image and the process of teaching and learning. Specifically, I argue that the Summa is skillfully arranged in order to initiate the student into the graced process of conceiving words about the Triune God that burst forth into love—the very processions by which we are ad imaginem Dei and become more like God. Learning to speak truly and love rightly prepares students to preach about God within their culture, just as Thomas’s own efforts to preach the trinitarian mystery indicate. My argument takes into account Thomas’s life as a Dominican preacher and teacher in thirteenth-century Europe as well as his theology of the mixed life of contemplation and action. With respect to the latter, Thomas maintained that the Dominican must draw in contemplation what he will pour out later on in preaching (contemplata aliis tradere). Thomas wrote the Summa theologiae with this pastoral orientation in mind. In light of this historical context, I argue that the Summa is a performative text and transformative encounter with sacra doctrina written to prepare Dominican students to hand on the fruits of their contemplation. This interpretation of the Summa theologiae and Thomas’s trinitarian theology enriches standard contemporary interpretations of the psychological analogy
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2017
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Theology
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Lai, Poon Y. "[A comparative study of Mo-Tze's universal love and Thomas Aquinas' charity]." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
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Thesis (M.C.S.)--Regent College, 1995.Chinese text and title page, with English summary and bibliography of English references. Author's name taken from microfiche header; English title from English summary. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 92-95).
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Twetten, Walter S. "The doctrine of divine simplicity in Thomas Aquinas and a contemporary defense." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.
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Archer, Matthew D. "Proclaiming Christ: Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth on Handing on the Word of God in Human Words." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1468582662.
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Thimell, Daniel P. "Grace, law and the doctrine of God in the theologies of St Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin and John McLeod Campbell : a comparative study." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1992. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=216223.
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This study compares and contrasts the various understandings of grace and law found in St. Thomas, Calvin, and McLeod Campbell, noting how they are grounded in certain conceptions of the nature of God. St. Thomas' metaphysic of final causality yields an abstract God of Pure Act who is fundamentally self-determined will, and who therefore can issue a double decree, and even establish a kind of semipelagianism, for sinners having received the first grace, must cooperate with grace in order to be restored to a state of justice. In this manner, the nature of God as loving and gracious is called into question. Calvin, without consciously responding to the details of the thomist synthesis, presents an evangelical critique of medieval theology, grounded in his conviction that God is gracious in his self-giving in the humanity of his Son for the salvation of the world. Calvin maintains the double decree, although out of harmony with his fundamental insights regarding God's nature. It serves as a defense of sola gratia. but at the expense of creating a voluntaristic wedge between the being and act of a God who is not truly loving or gracious. Campbell engages in a Christological critique of Calvin, urging that if Christ is truly the only revelation of God then God is a loving Father in his inmost life, whose will for the human race is undivided in his desire that all be reconciled in the humanity of his Son. In his death Jesus says Amen to the divine judgment upon human sin, removing the barrier for all to return.
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De-Spain, Benjamin Ross. "Hope for the doctrine of the divine ideas : a study on the habit of thinking theologically in the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas." Thesis, Durham University, 2016. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11530/.
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This thesis offers a reconstructive reading of Thomas’s doctrine of the divine ideas, and its contribution to his pedagogical efforts in the Summa Theologiae to train its readers in the habit of thinking theologically. I argue that through a series of primary and peripheral gestures, Thomas appropriates the doctrine of the divine ideas to help guide his readers from the confession of faith to the understanding of humanity’s creational and soteriological dependence on God. Accordingly, Thomas’s multilevel integration of the divine ideas into the Summa typifies the convergence of faith and reason that defines the nature of theological discourse in his exposition of sacra doctrina. More specifically, this integration reflects Thomas’s understanding of the theological task as the contemplative process of discerning the fittingness (convenientia) of God’s actions revealed in the mysteries of faith. Following the pedagogical structure of the Summa, then, Thomas uses the doctrine of the divine ideas to help discern the mysteries of creation and salvation. Corresponding to this pedagogical repurposing of the divine ideas, Thomas’s intimations and subtle references to the divine ideas throughout the Summa are designed to direct the reader’s attention to the goal of theological inquiry, which is the contemplative vision of God. He does this by utilizing the divine ideas both to prepare his readers for his theological exposition on God’s creational activity and providential oversight of all that exists and supplement their understanding of these issues. Thomas’s theological appropriation of the divine ideas is, therefore, grounded in the unity of his exposition on the trinitarian life of God, which demonstrates that his integration and elevation of the doctrine is rooted in his understanding of theological inquiry as a pedagogical response to God’s self-disclosure in scripture. This process of appropriating and elevating the doctrine of the divine ideas into dialogue with the mysteries of faith culminates when Thomas extends the grammar of the divine ideas into his theological reflections on Christ’s salvific work and humanity’s response.
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Bender, Melanie. "The dawn of the invisible the reception of the platonic doctrine on beauty in the Christian middle ages ; Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Nicholas of Cusa." Münster Verl.-Haus Monsenstein und Vannerdat, 2007. http://d-nb.info/1000680940/04.
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Loiseau, Stéphane. "De l'écoute à la parole : la lecture biblique dans la doctrine sacrée selon Thomas d'Aquin." Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040087/document.
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Lorsque Thomas d’Aquin lit la Bible comme enseignant à l’université, il entre dans le texte de la même manière que dans les autres textes profanes qu’il commente. Pourtant la lecture biblique est chargée par l’Aquinate d’un rôle particulier dans la doctrine sacrée considérée comme science : c’est par cette lecture qu’une participation à la sagesse de Dieu est acquise, ce qui permet au théologien de forger les principes dont il a besoin pour argumenter scientifiquement. Cela donne un statut particulier au commentaire biblique qui est alors conçu comme un prolongement homogène du texte de l’Écriture où Dieu se révèle. Le Commentaire de l’évangile de Jean est un bon témoin de cela dans l’œuvre du dominicain. Un modèle de ce chemin intellectuel parcouru par la lecture biblique est la Samaritaine qui écoute le Christ puis l’annonce conduisant les habitants à venir au Christ. Elle écoute les mots humains de Dieu, cherche à les pénétrer, elle peut alors prendre à son tour la parole et transmettre la profondeur de la sagesse qu’elle a découverteWhen Thomas Aquinas reads the Bible as a university teacher, he enters the text as any other secular text he comments. Yet biblical reading is given a special role by Aquinas in sacred doctrine, considered as a science: this reading enables a participation to God's wisdom and allows the theologian to elaborate the principles he needs in order to argue in a scientific manner. This gives a particular status to biblical commentary which is then designed as a homogenous extension of the sacred text where God reveals himself. The Commentary on the Gospel of John provides good evidence of this in the work of the Dominican. A model of this intellectual approach of biblical reading is the Samaritan woman who listens to the Christ, then announces it, conducting inhabitants to come to the Christ. She listens to the human words of God, seeking to penetrate them, being then in a position to speak herself and convey the depth of this wisdom she discovered
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Heidgerken, Benjamin E. "The Christ and the Tempter: Christ's Temptation by the Devil in the Thought of St. Maximus the Confessor and St. Thomas Aquinas." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1430153281.
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Bender, Melanie. "The dawn of the invisible : the reception of the platonic doctrine on beauty in the Christian middle ages ; Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Nicholas of Cusa /." Münster : Verl.-Haus Monsenstein und Vannerdat, 2010. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=019015086&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Neuve-Église, Amélie. "Etude critique de la doctrine de l'existence dans la pensée d'Avicenne et de Thomas d'Aquin sur la base de la philosophie sadrienne." Thesis, Paris 1, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA010613.
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Les notions d'essentialisme et d'existentialisme ont souvent été utilisées par les commentateurs et spécialistes contemporains pour désigner respectivement les philosophies d'Avicenne et de Thomas d'Aquin. Cependant, ces qualificatifs leur ont souvent été apposés sur la base d'une étude fragmentaire de leur pensée, et sans qu'une définition précise et uniforme n'en ait été donnée. En tant que fondateur d'un système philosophique constituant une synthèse critique de différents courants de pensées, Molla Sadrâ a été à l'origine d'une nouvelle réflexion sur la question de l'existence. Alliée à sa pensée critique au sujet de systèmes philosophiques l'ayant précédé, sa philosophie peut constituer une nouvelle base de réflexion sur le sens des notions d'existentialisme et d'essentialisme, ainsi que sur la façon dont Avicenne et S. Thomas ont pensé l'existence. La philosophie sadrienne est ici mise à contribution en vue de présenter une analyse du statut de l'existence dans les philosophies avicennienne et thomasienne dans un cadre à la fois global et critique, et de mettre en relief certaines options fondamentales de leur pensée. L'analyse est complétée par une évaluation critique de la façon dont certains commentateurs ont appréhendé et compris le statut de l'existence dans ces deux penséesThe notions of essentialism and existentialism have often been used by contemporary commentators and scholars to refer respectively to the philosophies of Avicenna and Thomas Aquinas. However, these attributions have often taken place of the basis of fragmentary studies of their thought, whereas no precise and uniform definition of such notions has been given. As the founder of a philosophical system which constitutes a critical synthesis of different schools of thought, Molla Sadra is at the origin of a new reflection on the issue of existence. Along with a critical thinking about some philosophical systems that preceded it, his philosophy may provide a new basis for a reflection on the meaning of the notions of existentialism and essentialism, as well as on how Avicenna and S. Thomas have thought and tackled the issue of existence. In this study, the Sadrian philosophy is used in order to present an analysis of the status of existence in the philosophies of Avicenna and Thomas Aquinas within a comprehensive and critical framework, and to highlight some fundamental options of their thought. The analysis is complemented by a critical assessment of how some commentators have apprehended and understood the status of existence in these two thoughts
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Crivorncica, Roberta. "Necessidade e possibilidade da prova da existência de Deus na filosofia de Tomás de Aquino." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-11092009-151554/.
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A questão da existência de Deus acompanha o desenvolvimento intelectual de Tomás de Aquino e tem papel central em sua Suma de Teologia, na qual o filósofo desenvolve sua resposta através das conhecidas cinco vias para a prova da existência de Deus. O objetivo desta dissertação é percorrer o caminho traçado por Tomás de Aquino para chegar às cinco vias, mostrando a necessidade e a possibilidade da prova da existência de Deus como sujeito da Doutrina Sagrada.The question of the existence of God follows the intellectual development of Saint Thomas Aquinas. It also plays a central role in his Summa Theologica, where the philosopher develops his answer trough the five ways of proving the existence of God. This dissertations aims to follow Saint Thomas Aquinas through the journey in developing \"the five ways\", by showing the need and the possibility to prove the existence of God as subject of the holy doctrine.
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Warne, Nathaniel Adam. "The call to happiness : an investigation of happiness, virtues, commands and the common good in the doctrine of calling, through the work of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas and sixteenth and seventeenth century English Puritans." Thesis, Durham University, 2015. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11201/.
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This thesis is about eudaimonism in Puritan thought. I am concerned with the living strand of Christian eudaemonism within the writings of 16th and 17th century English Puritans, which has long tendrils back into the tradition, and which is, more or less, neglected by commentators. I will be concerned to show that the notion of divine callings as a kind of command from God can sit comfortably alongside this eudaemonism, without rendering the Puritans ‘divine command theorists.’ As a sub-category of eudaemonism, I will address the Puritan notion of divine callings, showing how this can be understood as an aspect of human flourishing. And, further, as a sub-category of calling, I will look at how the category of ‘work’ can also be understood as an aspect of human flourishing, illuminated from within this tradition of Christian eudaimonism. I show within the Christian eudaemonistic tradition a distinction between natural and supernatural ends, the latter being only achieved in the vision of God in the next life. With this distinction made, I show that earthly happiness is constituted by the right use of reason in theoria and praxis, being related to our work places as well as a lifelong engagement in theology and philosophy. I then show the relationship between divine command theories and naturalism by looking at the emphasis on the development of virtue to character states appropriate to humankind as rational animals as a command of God. I then move to an examination of more particular commands in the doctrine of calling, arguing that for the Puritans the means of achieving earthly happiness vary from person to person and extend into our talents and workplaces. Finally, I show that personal earthly happiness cannot be achieved without the assistance of friendship in ecclesial and political communities.
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Raveton, Elsa-Chirine. "L'idée de simplicité divine : une lecture de Bonaventure et Thomas d'Aquin." Thesis, Paris 4, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA040138/document.
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Cette étude souhaite contribuer à une meilleure connaissance et compréhension de l’idée de simplicité divine, qui signifie l’absence en Dieu de toute composition. Pièce centrale de la pensée théologique médiévale, elle fut redécouverte il y a 35 ans par des philosophes de tendance analytique, qui en contestèrent la cohérence. Elle est depuis lors l’objet d’un débat philosophique fourni, mais le détour par l’histoire de la philosophie est nécessaire pour dégager le réseau de concepts, d’arguments et de problèmes qui lui donne sens. Après avoir étudié la première élaboration de cette idée dans les textes antiques et patristiques, puis son traitement par Pierre Lombard à la veille du IVe concile de Latran de 1215, qui intègre pour la première fois la simplicité divine dans une profession de foi authentique du magistère, nous nous concentrons sur les œuvres de Bonaventure de Bagnoregio et de Thomas d’Aquin, qui accordent à cet attribut divin un rôle fondateur dans leur étude du mystère de Dieu. L’idée de simplicité divine s’y trouve sans cesse prise dans la dialectique de la ressemblance et de la dissemblance entre Créateur et créature. Tandis que Thomas associe de façon unilatérale la simplicité absolue à la transcendance de l’incréé, Bonaventure propose également des similitudes créées de la simplicité divine qui en favorisent l’intuition. Loin d’apparaître comme incohérente, l’idée de simplicité divine est un outil puissant pour ouvrir notre intelligence à un plan de réalité supérieur, certes mystérieux, mais néanmoins lumineuxThis study seeks to contribute to a better understanding and comprehension of the idea of divine simplicity, which means the absence in God of any composition. Cornerstone of medieval theological thinking, divine simplicity was rediscovered 35 years ago by philosophers of analytical leanings, who challenged its coherence. It has since formed the subject of abundant philosophical debate, however, the detour via the history of philosophy is necessary in order to draw out the network of concepts, arguments and issues, from where divine simplicity derives its meaning. After the study of the first development of this idea in ancient and patristic texts, and its treatment by Peter Lombard on the eve of the 4th Council of Lateran in 1215, which integrates for the first time divine simplicity in a genuin profession of faith of the magisterium, we shall focus on the works of Bonaventure of Bagnoregio and Thomas Aquinas, who grant this divine attribute a founding role in the study of the mystery of God. The idea of divine simplicity keeps being comprised in the dialectics of similarity and dissimilarity between Creator and creature. While Aquinas associates in an unilateral way absolute simplicity and transcendence of the uncreated, Bonaventure offers also created resemblances of divine simplicity which favour its intuition. Far from appearing incoherent, the idea of divine simplicity is a powerful means to open our minds to a level of superior reality, indeed mysterious, but nevertheless radiant
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Mišejka, Pavol. "Filosofické aspekty nauky o Trojici v Teologické sumě Tomáše Akvinského." Master's thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-408867.
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Philosophical Aspects of Aquinas's Doctrine on the Trinity in Summa Theologiae. The work has the goal to disclose a philosophical background of Aquinas's doctrine on the Trinity in Summa theologiae. The Dogma of the Trinity of Divine Persons is one of the fundamental truths of faith. This fact transcends human reason, yet it is a topic with its position and content, so it was always exciting and theologians tried to cope with this paradoxical claim of a single God in the Three Persons. St. Thomas Aquinas was no exception in this. His scholastic approach uses abundant philosophical material to help him to disclose this reality which exceeds philosophical science as incontrovertible and therefore credible. In his famous work for beginner theologians, he systematically presents his solution based on the analysis of the category of relation. The distinction between being (esse) of relation and its own nature (ratio) will make it possible to distinguish the three Persons in God's only reality. He concludes that divine persons themselves are the relations they represent and that the relations are subsistent. Ultimately, such an understanding of the existence of divine Persons reveals the reason for creation and helps us to understand our salvation, which is according to the Angelic Doctor the ultimate...
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Jean, St-Gelais Karine. "La connaissance de soi chez Thomas d’Aquin : l’auto-intellection humaine et le moi." Thèse, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/10705.
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Ce mémoire entend présenter les formes de connaissance de soi développées par Thomas d’Aquin: la reditio incompleta, la réfraction sur les phantasmes, la conscience préréflexive, la réflexion par réfluence, l’analyse abstraite, le jugement critique et la reditio completa. L’âme humaine ne pouvant se connaître directement, elle a accès à son essence par le biais de tous ses actes ou actes de conscience. Notre analyse se concentre sur la connaissance habituelle, habitus de toutes les connaissances, qui est la racine de l’image trinitaire en l’homme et garantit la vérité des intellections humaines. Pour ce faire, nous avons procédé à la traduction des questions 87 à 89 de la Somme théologique, dans lesquelles Thomas présente la connaissance humaine des substances séparées et le statut de l’âme séparée, montrant en quoi l’esprit de l’homme partage un certain commun avec les autres esprits de son univers.The purpose of this thesis is to present the different theories of self-knowledge developed by Thomas Aquinas: namely reditio incompleta, refraction of the soul on its own phantasms, preconscious reflection, reflection by reflux, abstract analysis, critical judgment and reditio completa. Although the human soul cannot have knowledge of itself directly, it can however approach its essence with its own acts or acts of consciousness. The analysis is based on the cognitio habitualis, habitus of all knowledge, that is the root of the trinitarian image in humankind and that guarantees the truth of human intellection. This involved translating questions 87 to 89 of the Summa Theologiae, in which Aquinas considers humanity’s understanding of immaterial substances and the separate soul’s knowledge. This demonstrates how the human soul shares common ground with other substances of the universe.