Aquinas on Believing God

Aquinas says that faith is belief about things one does not "see" for oneself. But if you do not see it for yourself, what makes your belief reasonable? Recent interpreters have missed a key part of Aquinas's answer, namely, that faith is believing God (credere Deo). In other words, t...

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主要作者: Siebert, Matthew Kent (Author)
格式: 電子 Article
語言:English
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出版: [2015]
In: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
Year: 2015, 卷: 89, Pages: 97-107
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages
KDB Roman Catholic Church
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B BELIEF & doubt
B Justification (Christian theology)
B FAITH & reason
B Translators
B theory of knowledge
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總結:Aquinas says that faith is belief about things one does not "see" for oneself. But if you do not see it for yourself, what makes your belief reasonable? Recent interpreters have missed a key part of Aquinas's answer, namely, that faith is believing God (credere Deo). In other words, they have not given sufficient attention to the formal object of faith. As a result, they overemphasize other parts of his answer Drawing partly on recent epistemology of testimony, I explain how the formal object of faith contributes to the justification of one's faith.
ISSN:2153-7925
Contains:Enthalten in: American Catholic Philosophical Association, Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5840/acpaproc2016122855