Aquinas on Faith and Charity
Charity plays a crucial role in Thomas Aquinas's view of faith. However, there is a tension in his writings between this fact and some passages that suggest that there may be faith without charity and that faith may merely consist of an intellectual act. In this essay, I explore this tension, w...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2021
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New blackfriars
Year: 2021, Volume: 102, Issue: 1100, Pages: 550-569 |
| Further subjects: | B
formed faith
B love for God B levels of charity B readiness to believe B Faith B Charity B unformed faith. levels of intensity of faith |
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| Summary: | Charity plays a crucial role in Thomas Aquinas's view of faith. However, there is a tension in his writings between this fact and some passages that suggest that there may be faith without charity and that faith may merely consist of an intellectual act. In this essay, I explore this tension, which has been neglected in the literature. My thesis is that, although there are tensions and lack of clarity that characterize Aquinas's treatment of this subject, it can be said that he believed that faith is impossible without the intervention of charity, however exiguous this intervention may be. |
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| ISSN: | 1741-2005 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: New blackfriars
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/nbfr.12565 |