Aquinas on Faith, Reason, and Charity

Aquinas on Faith, Reason, and Charity
Author: Roberto Di Ceglie
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2022-03-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1000567818

This book offers a new reading of Aquinas’s views on faith. The author argues that the theological nature of faith is crucial to Aquinas’s thought, and that it gives rise to a particular and otherwise incomprehensible relationship with reason. The first part of the book examines various modern and contemporary accounts of the relationship between faith and reason in Aquinas’s thought. The author shows that these accounts are unconvincing because they exhibit what he calls a Lockean view of faith and reason, which maintains that the relationship between faith and reason should be treated only by way of evidence. In other words, the Lockean view ignores the specific nature of the Christian faith and the equally specific way it needs to relate to reason. The second part offers a comprehensive account of Aquinas’s view of faith. It focuses on the way the divine grace and charity shape the relationship between evidence and human will. The final part of the book ties these ideas together to show how Christian faith, with its specifically theological nature, is perfectly compatible with rational debate. It also argues that employing the specificity of faith may constitute the best way to promote autonomous and successful rational investigations. Aquinas on Faith, Reason, and Charity will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Aquinas, philosophy of religion, Christian theology, and medieval philosophy.

By Knowledge & by Love

By Knowledge & by Love
Author: Michael S. Sherwin
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2005
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0813213932

By Knowledge and By Love represents a major contribution to Thomistic moral theology and philosophy by providing a thoughtful examination of Aquinas' psychology of action and his theology of charity.

On Nature and Grace

On Nature and Grace
Author: St Augustine of Hippo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2019-07-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781078330923

Extract from Augustine's Retractions (Book II, Chapter 42): At that time also there came into my hands a certain book of Pelagius', in which he defends, with all the argumentative skill he could muster, the nature of man, in opposition to the grace of God whereby the unrighteous is justified and we become Christians. The treatise which contains my reply to him, and in which I defend grace, not indeed as in opposition to nature, but as that which liberates and controls nature, I have entitled On Nature and Grace. In this work sundry short passages, which were quoted by Pelagius as the words of the Roman bishop and martyr, Xystus, were vindicated by myself as if they really were the words of this Sixtus. For this I thought them at the time; but I afterwards discovered, that Sextus the heathen philosopher, and not Xystus the Christian bishop, was their author. This treatise of mine begins with the words: 'The book which you sent me.'"

Ethics as a Work of Charity

Ethics as a Work of Charity
Author: David Decosimo
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-10-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781503600607

Most of us wonder how to make sense of the apparent moral excellences or virtues of those who have different visions of the good life or different religious commitments than our own. Rather than flattening or ignoring the deep difference between various visions of the good life, as is so often done, this book turns to the medieval Christian theologian Thomas Aquinas to find a better way. Thomas, it argues, shows us how to welcome the outsider and her virtue as an expression rather than a betrayal of one's own distinctive vision. It shows how Thomas, driven by a Christian commitment to charity and especially informed by Augustine, synthesized Augustinian and Aristotelian elements to construct an ethics that does justice—in love—to insiders and outsiders alike. Decosimo offers the first analysis of Thomas on pagan virtue and a reinterpretation of Thomas's ethics while providing a model for our own efforts to articulate a truthful hospitality and do ethics in our pluralist, globalized world.

Thomas Aquinas: A Very Short Introduction

Thomas Aquinas: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Fergus Kerr
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2009-11-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0191609633

Thomas Aquinas, an Italian Catholic priest in the early thirteeth century, is considered to be one of the great Christian thinkers who had, and who still has, a profound influence on Western thought. He was a controversial figure who was exposed and engaged in conflict. This Very Short Introduction looks at Aquinas in a historical context, and explores the Church and culture into which Aquinas was born. It considers Aquinas as philosopher, and looks at the relationship between philosophy and religion in the thirteenth century. Fergus Kerr, in this engaging and informative introduction, will make The Summa Theologiae, Aquinas's greatest single work, accessible to new readers. It will also reflect on the importance of Thomas Aquinas in modern debates and asks why Aquinas matters now. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

The Oxford Handbook of Leibniz

The Oxford Handbook of Leibniz
Author: Maria Rosa Antognazza
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Total Pages: 825
Release: 2018
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199744726

This volume provides a uniquely comprehensive, systematic, and up-to-date appraisal of Leibniz's thought thematically organized around its diverse but interrelated aspects. By pulling together the best specialized work in the many domains to which Leibniz contributed, its ambition is to offer the most rounded picture of Leibniz's endeavors currently available.

The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas

The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas
Author: Brian Davies
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 606
Release: 2012-01-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0195326091

This volume presents an introduction to Aquinas and a guide to his thinking on almost all the major topics on which he wrote. The book begins with an account of Aquinas's life and the historical context of his thought. The subsequent sections address topics that Aquinas himself discussed. The final sections of the volume address the development of Aquinas's thought and its historical influence.

On Love and Charity

On Love and Charity
Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2008-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0813215250

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Christ and Spirituality in St. Thomas Aquinas

Christ and Spirituality in St. Thomas Aquinas
Author: Jean-Pierre Torrell
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2011-11-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0813218780

The studies in this volume investigate themes of particular spiritual relevance in Aquinas's theology: friendship, charity, prayer, configuration to Christ, priesthood, preaching.