Thomas Aquinas on Non-Theological Faith
The majority of studies on ‘faith’ (fides) in the thought of Thomas Aquinas consider it in a religious or theological context: fides as the theological virtue by which one assents to the truths of divine revelation. The focus on theological faith is appropriate, given its central importance as a the...
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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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2024
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New blackfriars
Anno: 2024, Volume: 105, Fascicolo: 5, Pagine: 478-491 |
| (sequenze di) soggetti normati: | B
Thomas, von Aquin, Heiliger 1225-1274, Expositio super librum Boethii De trinitate
/ Fede
/ Epistemologia
/ Società
/ Fiducia
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| Altre parole chiave: | B
Epistemology
B Science B Thomas Aquinas B Faith B Society |
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| Riepilogo: | The majority of studies on ‘faith’ (fides) in the thought of Thomas Aquinas consider it in a religious or theological context: fides as the theological virtue by which one assents to the truths of divine revelation. The focus on theological faith is appropriate, given its central importance as a theological virtue, but this is not the only sense of fides that Thomas identifies. The present study investigates two non-theological senses formulated in his commentary on the De Trinitate of Boethius: first, fides as the proximate cause of assenting to principles within a given science (‘epistemic faith’) and, second, fides as an indispensable element of society (‘societal faith’). These senses have been largely overlooked in secondary literature but, I argue, might help to dispel mischaracterizations of faith as fundamentally unreasonable. |
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| ISSN: | 1741-2005 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: New blackfriars
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/nbf.2024.5 |
