Natura assumptibilis: die Eignung der menschlichen Natur für die hypostatische Union nach Thomas von Aquin
In all forms of today’s transcendental theology, anthropological conditions and prerequisites to God’s incarnation are widely discussed. In the scholastic Christology of the 13th century, there seems to be a certain parallel in the question whether human nature was more ‘acceptable’ to hypostatic un...
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| Language: | German |
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Pontificia Academia Sancti Thomae Aquinatis
2005
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Atti del Congresso Internazionale su l'Umanesimo Cristiano nel III Millennio: La Prospettiva di Tommaso d'Aquinas ; 2
Year: 2005, Pages: 65-80 |
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| Summary: | In all forms of today’s transcendental theology, anthropological conditions and prerequisites to God’s incarnation are widely discussed. In the scholastic Christology of the 13th century, there seems to be a certain parallel in the question whether human nature was more ‘acceptable’ to hypostatic union than any other creature (e.g. angels). Our paper offers a comparative study of the major texts in the work of St Thomas Aquinas regarding this topic (especially 3 Sent., d. 2, q. 1, a. 1 and S.Th., III, 4, 1), also taking into consideration the corresponding articles of some important contemporaries. As a result, it will become evident that medieval theology does not intend to develop an idea of incarnation by means of ‘pure reason’ or transcendental anthropology, and does not even admit any natural potential within the creature for the strictly supernatural fact of hypostatic union. Theology cannot a priori demonstrate the possibility of God becoming man, but can only try to contemplate God’s wisdom as expressed in this mystery of faith. It is the ontological dignity of human nature together with its misery caused by sin and moving God’s saving love, that makes it assumptibilis more than any other part of the universe. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 78-80 |
| ISBN: | 8888353062 |
| Contains: | In: International Congress on Christian Humanism in the Third Millennium: The Perspective of Thomas Aquinas (2003 : Vatikanstadt), Atti del Congresso Internazionale su l'Umanesimo Cristiano nel III Millennio: La Prospettiva di Tommaso d'Aquinas ; 2
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.15496/publikation-42704 HDL: 10900/101325 |