Agency, Bribery and Redemption in Thomas Aquinas
Redemptio is a concept analyzed by Thomas Aquinas as a repurchase in which there is a buyer, a price, a good, and a seller. Thomas experiences difficulty in identifying the seller but concludes that the price is paid to God. Two problems follow : (1) If Christ is seen as God's agent, how does G...
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Peeters
1982
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Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale
Year: 1982, Volume: 49, Pages: 159-173 |
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| Summary: | Redemptio is a concept analyzed by Thomas Aquinas as a repurchase in which there is a buyer, a price, a good, and a seller. Thomas experiences difficulty in identifying the seller but concludes that the price is paid to God. Two problems follow : (1) If Christ is seen as God's agent, how does God pay himself? (2) As simony is committed by purchase of the spiritual by any material consideration, why is not redemption a simoniacal transaction? The difficlty is compounded in Thomistic theology by Christ as man being our judge at the Last Judgement. How does Christ in his humanity judge those whom in his humanity he has redeemed? Thomas neither asks nor answers these questions. |
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| ISSN: | 2593-2896 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale
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