05312nam 22006974a 450 991095332840332120251117074454.00-8132-1648-6(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 PredicationGregory Rocca's nuanced discussion prevents Aquinas's thought from being capsulized in familiar slogans and is an antidote to unilateralist or monochrome views about God-talk.God (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.1949-1858071MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910953328403321Speaking the incomprehensible God4459312UNINA