04153nam 2200685Ia 450 991081246520332120230421052903.097866120521560-19-826458-50-19-152044-61-282-05215-2(CKB)2560000000300138(EBL)3053090(OCoLC)191827412(SSID)ssj0000259021(PQKBManifestationID)12093717(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000259021(PQKBWorkID)10274382(PQKB)10592482(SSID)ssj0000089868(PQKBManifestationID)11111850(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000089868(PQKBWorkID)10092154(PQKB)10988359(StDuBDS)EDZ0000074692(MiAaPQ)EBC3053090(Au-PeEL)EBL3053090(CaPaEBR)ebr10283325(CaONFJC)MIL205215(EXLCZ)99256000000030013819910919d1992 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe thought of Thomas Aquinas /Brian DaviesOxford Clarendon Pressc19921 online resource (408 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-826753-3 0-19-160050-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; 1. THE SHAPE OF A SAINT; Early Years; From Student to Teacher; Paris to Naples; The Last Phase; Aquinas's Character; Reading Aquinas Today; 2. GETTING TO GOD; Ways not to Get to God; God and His Effects: The Five Ways; The Existence Argument; Creation; The Beginning of the World; 3. WHAT GOD IS NOT; Not Knowing What God is; The Doctrine of Divine Simplicity: Preliminaries; The Doctrine of Divine Simplicity: Details; 4. TALKING ABOUT GOD; Background to Aquinas; Aquinas on God-Talk; The Doctrine of Analogy; Real and Notional Relations5. PERFECTION AND GOODNESSGod is Perfect; God is Good; God and Evil; 6. UBIQUITY TO ETERNITY; God's Presence in Things; God is Changeless; God is Eternal; Aquinas on Eternity Today; 7. ONENESS TO KNOWLEDGE; God is One; God has Power; God's Knowledge; 8. WILL TO MERCY; Will in God; Love in God; God's Justice and Mercy; 9. PROVIDENCE AND FREEDOM; Providence as God's Governing of Creatures; Miracles; Human Freedom; Prayer; 10. THE ETERNAL TRIANGLE; Aquinas and the Doctrine of the Trinity; The Trinity and Philosophy; Processions in the Trinity; Relations and the TrinityThe Persons Taken Individually11. BEING HUMAN; Me and My Body; Soul and Body; Death and the Soul; Desire and Action; 12. HOW TO BE HAPPY; Happiness and God; Happiness and Need; Practical Reasoning; Virtues; Natural Law; 13. HOW TO BE HOLY; The Human End and Human Nature; The Start of the Human Race; The Old Law; The New Law; Grace; The Cause and Kinds of Grace; 14. THE HEART OF GRACE; Faith; Hope; Charity; 15. GOD INCARNATE; The General Nature of Aquinas's Christology; The Union of Divinity and Humanity; What was Christ Like?; 16. THE LIFE AND WORK OF CHRIST; The General PictureSin and the IncarnationSatisfaction; Merit; Justification; The Resurrection and Ascension of Christ; 17. SIGNS AND WONDERS; Sacraments; The Crowning Sacrament: The Eucharist; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; ZAn introduction to the full range of Aquinas' thinking, which makes no arbitrary division between his philosophical and theological ideas. The text relates Aquinas' thought to writers both earlier and later than Aquinas himself.Theology, DoctrinalHistoryMiddle Ages, 600-1500Theology, DoctrinalHistory230/.2/092230.2092Davies Brian1951-27943MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812465203321The thought of Thomas Aquinas4073775UNINA