Thomas Aquinas and Francisco Suarez on the Problem of Concurrence

Thomas and Suarez understand God's creation and conservation in a similar way: as God's continually giving being to all creatures. The two philosophers also try to explain the way in which creaturely, secondary causality is guaranteed, but they do so in radically different ways. Suarez...

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Main Author: Baldner, Steven E. 1951- (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: 149-161
IxTheo Classification:KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KDB Roman Catholic Church
NBD Doctrine of Creation
VA Philosophy
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Summary:Thomas and Suarez understand God's creation and conservation in a similar way: as God's continually giving being to all creatures. The two philosophers also try to explain the way in which creaturely, secondary causality is guaranteed, but they do so in radically different ways. Suarez's doctrine of concurrence is not a progressive development of Thomas's doctrine of secondary, instrumental causality, with which this Suarezian innovation is incompatible. I try to show how different concurrentism is from Thomas's doctrine of secondary causality and to offer some criticism of the former by the latter.
ISSN:2153-7925
Contains:Enthalten in: American Catholic Philosophical Association, Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5840/acpaproc2017103064