Add to ORKGBoth Aquinas and the Neoplatonists affirm a divine super-whatness or super-essence. For the Thomist and the Neoplatonist alike, God is not so much a what or nonwhat as he is a super-what. In other words, neither a purely apophatic (negative) nor an exclusively cataphatic (positive) method for talking about God is adequate. Instead, a middle position (via media ) that combines both the meontological (from [Special characters omitted.] , non-being) and ontological features of theological discourse is required. While the meontological approach underscores God\u27s transcendence, the ontological method emphasizes God\u27s immanence. Together the Thomistic and Neoplatonic traditions maintain that an unqualified affirmation of a divin...
The central issue in this article is to understand how is the relationship between the concept of "B...
The role of divine power in Aquinas’s spiritual doctrine has often been neglected in favor of a focu...
This paper makes two main arguments. First, that to understand analogy in St. Thomas Aquinas, one mu...
Both Aquinas and the Neoplatonists affirm a divine super-whatness or super-essence. For the Thom...
Thomas Aquinas argues in his seminal work, the Summa Theologiae, that one can come to know the exist...
“Classical theism,” refers to St. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica, which is also known as the Doctr...
The most important claim of the thesis of the divine simplicity is that the daily expressions of lan...
The purpose of the dissertation is to see how Aquinas\u27s thought relates to ontotheology. Although...
Aquinas\u27s commentaries on the de Hebdomadibus of Boethius, on The Divine Names of Dionysius, and ...
Within the Neoplatonic tradition, the absolute transcendence of the First Principle—the One-Good, fr...
Aquinas claims that ‘He Who Is’ is the most proper of the names we have for God. But this attempt to...
The question addressed in this work is whether or not God can be understood as an absolutely simple ...
It has been argued by John Milbank and the Radical Orthodoxy sensibility that a genealogy can be tra...
Abstract: Modern theologians have criticized Thomas' presentation of trinitarian doctrine in his Su...
Aquinas explained the doctrine of divine simplicity with three claims. The first distinguished God f...
The central issue in this article is to understand how is the relationship between the concept of "B...
The role of divine power in Aquinas’s spiritual doctrine has often been neglected in favor of a focu...
This paper makes two main arguments. First, that to understand analogy in St. Thomas Aquinas, one mu...
Both Aquinas and the Neoplatonists affirm a divine super-whatness or super-essence. For the Thom...
Thomas Aquinas argues in his seminal work, the Summa Theologiae, that one can come to know the exist...
“Classical theism,” refers to St. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica, which is also known as the Doctr...
The most important claim of the thesis of the divine simplicity is that the daily expressions of lan...
The purpose of the dissertation is to see how Aquinas\u27s thought relates to ontotheology. Although...
Aquinas\u27s commentaries on the de Hebdomadibus of Boethius, on The Divine Names of Dionysius, and ...
Within the Neoplatonic tradition, the absolute transcendence of the First Principle—the One-Good, fr...
Aquinas claims that ‘He Who Is’ is the most proper of the names we have for God. But this attempt to...
The question addressed in this work is whether or not God can be understood as an absolutely simple ...
It has been argued by John Milbank and the Radical Orthodoxy sensibility that a genealogy can be tra...
Abstract: Modern theologians have criticized Thomas' presentation of trinitarian doctrine in his Su...
Aquinas explained the doctrine of divine simplicity with three claims. The first distinguished God f...
The central issue in this article is to understand how is the relationship between the concept of "B...
The role of divine power in Aquinas’s spiritual doctrine has often been neglected in favor of a focu...
This paper makes two main arguments. First, that to understand analogy in St. Thomas Aquinas, one mu...