Tools for interpreting Christ's saving mysteries in scripture: Aquinas on reduplicative propositions in christology
This article examines how Thomas Aquinas used reduplicative propositions (e.g. "Christ suffers insofar as he is a human being") to explicate Christ's saving mysteries, or events that Christ did and suffered that produced states of affairs only God can do. Following scripture's fo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2020]
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| In: |
Scottish journal of theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 73, Issue: 4, Pages: 285-294 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274
/ Christology
/ Reduplication
/ Preposition
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages NBF Christology |
| Further subjects: | B
Incarnation
B theandric B Christology B Thomas Aquinas B reduplication B Chalcedon |
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| Summary: | This article examines how Thomas Aquinas used reduplicative propositions (e.g. "Christ suffers insofar as he is a human being") to explicate Christ's saving mysteries, or events that Christ did and suffered that produced states of affairs only God can do. Following scripture's focus on Christ as one acting subject, Aquinas argued that we should use the adverbial modifiers "authoritatively as God and instrumentally as a human being" to speak well of Christ's saving mysteries as actions of a single subject. This approach is theologically beneficial because it avoids the pitfalls of thinking of Christ's natures as agents. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-3065 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Scottish journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0036930620000617 |
