Aquinas's Ethics: The Infused Virtues and the Indwelling of the Holy Spirit
This paper explores Aquinas's ethics. For Aquinas, the moral life begins with a surrender to God on the part of a person Jerome as Jerome comes to faith. That surrender includes a change in Jerome's will from the state of resisting God's love and grace to quiescence, the cessation of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Peeters
[2019]
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| In: |
Ephemerides theologicae Lovanienses
Year: 2019, Volume: 95, Issue: 2, Pages: 269-281 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274
/ Ethics
/ Holy Spirit
/ Indwelling of God
/ Virtue
/ Will
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages KDB Roman Catholic Church NBE Anthropology NBG Pneumatology; Holy Spirit NCA Ethics |
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| Summary: | This paper explores Aquinas's ethics. For Aquinas, the moral life begins with a surrender to God on the part of a person Jerome as Jerome comes to faith. That surrender includes a change in Jerome's will from the state of resisting God's love and grace to quiescence, the cessation of resistance. Once Jerome's will is in this quiescent state, God infuses grace into Jerome's will. On Aquinas's views, in an instant this grace moves Jerome's will to the will of faith. In that same instant, the Holy Spirit comes to indwell in Jerome and also brings into Jerome all the infused virtues, as well as all the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit. The paper explores Aquinas's claims about the infused virtues and the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit, and it argues that for Aquinas the moral life is first and foremost a matter of having a right second-personal relationship to God. |
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| ISSN: | 1783-1423 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ephemerides theologicae Lovanienses
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/ETL.95.2.3286476 |