Suorum Operum Potestas: Works, Virtues, and the Theology of Economy

In the prologue to I-II of the Summa Theologica, Thomas Aquinas says that part of the image of God in human beings is that the human person liberum arbitrium habens et suorum operum potestatem - “has free will” (liberum arbitrium habens) and what is often translated as “control of their actions” (su...

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Main Author: Williams, Gregory (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge University Press 2020
In: New blackfriars
Year: 2020, Volume: 101, Issue: 1095, Pages: 558-584
Further subjects:B Economy
B Work
B Thomas Aquinas
B Sergei Bulgakov
B Karl Marx
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