Being and Love: Schleiermacher, Aquinas and Augustine
This article makes the case for speaking not of divine "attributes" but of divine "names." There are good scriptural grounds for advancing the thesis that love is not just another divine name, but the name which designates God's very nature, i.e. who God is. Schleiermacher m...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2018]
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Modern theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 34, Issue: 3, Pages: 480-491 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Augustinus, Aurelius, Saint 354-430
/ Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274
/ Schleiermacher, Friedrich 1768-1834
/ Name of God
/ Attributes of God
/ Love
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IxTheo Classification: | KAA Church history KDB Roman Catholic Church KDD Protestant Church NBC Doctrine of God |
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Summary: | This article makes the case for speaking not of divine "attributes" but of divine "names." There are good scriptural grounds for advancing the thesis that love is not just another divine name, but the name which designates God's very nature, i.e. who God is. Schleiermacher made that case. This essay argues that "Love," as a divine name, should be paired with "being" (which is also, for theologians like Augustine and Aquinas, a "biblical" name), since God does not "have" love or being, but is love and is "being itself." |
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ISSN: | 1468-0025 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Modern theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/moth.12431 |