RT Article
T1 On Aquinas's Theological Reliabilism
JF Heythrop journal
VO 59
IS 4
SP 653
OP 662
A1 Di Ceglie, Roberto 1971-
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1671664809
AB In an essay titled Aquinas on the Foundations of Knowledge, Eleonore Stump rejects the idea that Aquinas's epistemology is foundationalist. I agree with Stump, and share in her conviction that the Angelic doctor developed instead what can be seen as a kind of theological reliabilism. In this article, I intend to take her position a step further. First, I would like to show that Thomistic reliabilism falls into a vicious circle if seen as based on a merely rational theism. Second, I am going to argue that for Aquinas such reliabilism depends instead on Christian faith, construed as the act of believing the revealed truth by virtue of the love relationship that God allows human beings to have with him.
DO 10.1111/heyj.12243