God of Order: Human Nature and the Beatific Vision

The doctrine of the beatifying vision of God may be derived not only from Sacred Scripture’s promise to the faithful that they shall ‘see God’ (Matt 5:8; 1 Cor 13:12; 1 John 3:2), but also (and perhaps more fundamentally) from Scripture’s testimony that God ‘is not the God of disorder but of peace’...

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Main Author: Schendel, Joshua D. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] 2023
In: Reformed theological review
Year: 2023, Volume: 82, Issue: 1, Pages: 75-93
IxTheo Classification:KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages
NBC Doctrine of God
NBK Soteriology
TB Antiquity
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Visio Dei
B Supernature
B Grace
B Human Nature
B Beatific Vision
B Thomas Aquinas
B Reformed Scholastics
B Aristotle
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Summary:The doctrine of the beatifying vision of God may be derived not only from Sacred Scripture’s promise to the faithful that they shall ‘see God’ (Matt 5:8; 1 Cor 13:12; 1 John 3:2), but also (and perhaps more fundamentally) from Scripture’s testimony that God ‘is not the God of disorder but of peace’ (1 Cor 14:33). An analysis of the concepts of nature, on the part of humanity, and agency, on the part of divinity, within a broadly Aristotelian framework elucidates why early modern Reformed scholastics exposited the beatific vision as the ultimate end of humankind as a fitting implicate of the biblical testimony that God is a God of order.
ISSN:0034-3072
Contains:Enthalten in: Reformed theological review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.53521/a342