Thomistic Multiple Incarnations

In this article I present St. Thomas Aquinas's views on the possibility of multiple incarnations. First I disambiguate four things one might mean when saying that multiple incarnations are possible. Then I provide and justify what I take to be Aquinas's answers to these questions, showing...

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Main Author: Pawl, Timothy (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2016
In: Heythrop journal
Year: 2016, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 359-370
IxTheo Classification:KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages
NBC Doctrine of God
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Summary:In this article I present St. Thomas Aquinas's views on the possibility of multiple incarnations. First I disambiguate four things one might mean when saying that multiple incarnations are possible. Then I provide and justify what I take to be Aquinas's answers to these questions, showing the intricacies of his argumentation and concluding that he holds an extremely robust view of the possibility of multiple incarnations. According to Aquinas, I argue, there could be three simultaneously existing concrete rational natures, each of which is assumed by all three of the Divine Persons, all at the same time.
ISSN:1468-2265
Contains:Enthalten in: Heythrop journal
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/heyj.12230