Deification in Aquinas: A Supplementum to The Ground of Union
This article is a study of Thomas Aquinas’s teaching on deification as presented throughout his corpus. It takes A. N. Williams’s work, The Ground of Union: Deification in Aquinas and Palamas , as a starting point; it then seeks to improve upon and expand Williams’s work in conversation with her cri...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2015]
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 66, Issue: 1, Pages: 204-234 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274
/ Deification
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages KDB Roman Catholic Church NBE Anthropology NBK Soteriology |
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| Summary: | This article is a study of Thomas Aquinas’s teaching on deification as presented throughout his corpus. It takes A. N. Williams’s work, The Ground of Union: Deification in Aquinas and Palamas , as a starting point; it then seeks to improve upon and expand Williams’s work in conversation with her critics. To do this, a systematic examination is conducted of Thomas’s usage of deificatio and deiformitas language. Thomas’s scriptural commentaries and his commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius’s De divinis nominibus receive the most attention as these works have been under-studied and as they hold Thomas’s most developed teaching on deification. On the basis of this research, the article offers an account of what deification means for Thomas. Furthermore, contra Gösta Hallonsten’s claims, the article argues that Aquinas’s thought contains a comprehensive vision of deification deeply integrated into the whole of his thought, which forms a fully developed doctrine rather than an occasional theme. This conclusion supports Williams’s work in The Ground of Union , responds to Williams’s critics, and provides a new perspective on the unity of Thomas’s thought. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flv024 |