05120nam 22006854a 450 991080747110332120200520144314.00-8132-1648-6(CKB)2440000000013957(EBL)3134731(OCoLC)922996417(SSID)ssj0000487527(PQKBManifestationID)11344403(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000487527(PQKBWorkID)10443008(PQKB)11065987(SSID)ssj0000378057(PQKBManifestationID)11293956(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000378057(PQKBWorkID)10351164(PQKB)11290913(OCoLC)646786277(MdBmJHUP)muse24259(Au-PeEL)EBL3134731(CaPaEBR)ebr10267256(MiAaPQ)EBC3134731(EXLCZ)99244000000001395720030523d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSpeaking the incomprehensible God Thomas Aquinas on the interplay of positive and negative theology /Gregory P. Rocca1st ed.Washington, D.C. Catholic University of America Pressc20041 online resource (440 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8132-1574-9 0-8132-1367-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-386) and indexes.Contents; Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; Part One. God the Incomprehensible and Negative Theology; A Brief Survey of Negative Theology in the Hellenistic and Patristic Traditions; Authors before Pseudo-Dionysius; Pseudo-Dionysius and John Damascene; God's Dual Incomprehensibility in Aquinas; God as Supereminent Darkness; Our Nonquidditative Knowledge of God; No Intellect Sees God by Its Natural Powers; The Graced Vision of God's Essence; Finite Intellectual Creatures and God's Infinity; Our Noncomprehensive Knowledge of God; Conclusion; Aquinas' Via Negativa; The Threefold Way to GodThe Via NegativaThree Types of Negative Theology; Growth and Progress of Negative Theology; Negation and Preeminence; The Way of Preeminence; Conclusion; Part Two. Analogy and the Web of Judgment; Analogy in Aristotle; The Various Meanings of Analogy in Aquinas; Critique of Analogy; Analogy as Proportion and Proportionality; Analogy as Referential Multivocity; Analogy of Attribution, Proper Proportionality, and Cajetan's Interpretation; The Primacy of Analogy as Referential Multivocity; The Logical Status of Multivocal Analogy; The Unity and Diversity of Analogy as a Web of PredicationPrimary and Secondary MeaningsReference to an Individual Reality or Nature; God and Creatures; The Analogical Community; Analogy's "Common Meaning" and "Different Meanings"; Analogy as Judgment in Aquinas; Judgment and Truth; Judgment and Concept; Analogy as Judgment; Theological Analogy as the Mean between Univocity and Equivocity; The Place of Theological Analogy in Aquinas' Treatise on God; The Graced Judgment of Faith; Conclusion; Part Three. Crucial Truths about God; Aquinas and the Existence of God the Creator; Aquinas' View of Aristotle's First PrinciplesThe Unmoved Mover of Aristotle's PhysicsThe Primary Substance of Aristotle's Metaphysics; The Richness of God's Existence in Aquinas' Theology; Aquinas and the Philosophers on God the Creator; Creation and Creator; The World's Eternity; God the Creator Philosophically Interpreted as Subsistent Being; The Radical Contingence of Creatures Philosophically Interpreted as the Real Distinction between Being and Essence; Conclusion; Aquinas' Crucial Theological Truths; God Is the Infinite, Pure, and Perfect Act of Subsistent Being; A Perfect God; An Infinite GodGod Is the Creator and Conserver of the UniverseA Transcendent Creator; An Immanent Creator; A God Who Freely Creates from Nothing; Creation Is a Likeness to God; Creatures Are Both Like and Unlike God; God's Essence and God's Ideas; Vestige, Image, Similarity; Participation: Aquinas' Christian View of the Universe; Truth and Epistemology; Part Four. The Divine Names; Aquinas' Positive Theology of the Divine Names; Divine Names; Theory of Names; On Naming God; Aquinas' Positive Theology; Proper Name of Divinity; Proper versus Metaphorical Predication; Taxonomy of the Divine NamesPrimacy and Dependence in Divine PredicationGod (Christianity)KnowablenessHistory of doctrinesMiddle Ages, 600-1500Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)History of doctrinesMiddle Ages, 600-1500God (Christianity)KnowablenessHistory of doctrinesKnowledge, Theory of (Religion)History of doctrines230/.2/092Rocca Gregory P.1949-1662889MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807471103321Speaking the incomprehensible God4019843UNINA