Augustine and Aquinas on Demonic Possession: Theoria and Praxis

Augustine asserted that demons (and angels) have material bodies, while Aquinas denied demonic corporeality, upholding that demons are separated, incorporeal, intelligible substances. Augustine's conception of demons as composite substances possessing an immaterial soul and an aerial body is in...

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Main Author: O'Neill, Seamus (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [2016]
In: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
Year: 2016, Volume: 90, Pages: 133-147
IxTheo Classification:KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages
KDB Roman Catholic Church
NBH Angelology; demonology
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