Trinitarian charity: Aquinas and Lombard on charity and the Holy Spirit
This paper examines Aquinas’ reception of Peter Lombard's disputed thesis that the charity with which we love God and neighbour is not a virtue, but rather the Holy Spirit himself. Through a close reading of the four passages where Aquinas engages directly with the thesis, I show how this recep...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2021
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Scottish journal of theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 74, Issue: 3, Pages: 209-221 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Peter Lombard 1095-1160
/ Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274
/ Love of neighbor
/ Holy Spirit
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages NBG Pneumatology; Holy Spirit NCA Ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Habit
B Holy Spirit B Peter Lombard B Grace B Thomas Aquinas B Charity |
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| Summary: | This paper examines Aquinas’ reception of Peter Lombard's disputed thesis that the charity with which we love God and neighbour is not a virtue, but rather the Holy Spirit himself. Through a close reading of the four passages where Aquinas engages directly with the thesis, I show how this reception evolved over the course of his career, such that he gradually came to incorporate the trinitarian insight underlying Lombard's thesis into his doctrine of created charity. Although this doctrine is often viewed as an outright rejection of Lombard's thesis, I argue that it is in fact a substantial development of it that was made possible by Aquinas’ assimilation of Aristotelian naturalism. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-3065 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Scottish journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0036930621000387 |