LEADER 05123nam 22006734a 450 001 9910780768403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8132-1648-6 035 $a(CKB)2440000000013957 035 $a(EBL)3134731 035 $a(OCoLC)922996417 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000487527 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11344403 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000487527 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10443008 035 $a(PQKB)11065987 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000378057 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11293956 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000378057 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10351164 035 $a(PQKB)11290913 035 $a(OCoLC)646786277 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse24259 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3134731 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10267256 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3134731 035 $a(EXLCZ)992440000000013957 100 $a20030523d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSpeaking the incomprehensible God$b[electronic resource] $eThomas Aquinas on the interplay of positive and negative theology /$fGregory P. Rocca 210 $aWashington, D.C. $cCatholic University of America Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (440 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8132-1574-9 311 $a0-8132-1367-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 357-386) and indexes. 327 $aContents; 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 God 327 $aThe 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 Predication 327 $aPrimary 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 Principles 327 $aThe 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 God 327 $aGod 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 Names 327 $aPrimacy and Dependence in Divine Predication 606 $aGod (Christianity)$xKnowableness$xHistory of doctrines$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 606 $aKnowledge, Theory of (Religion)$xHistory of doctrines$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 615 0$aGod (Christianity)$xKnowableness$xHistory of doctrines 615 0$aKnowledge, Theory of (Religion)$xHistory of doctrines 676 $a230/.2/092 700 $aRocca$b Gregory P.$f1949-$01556082 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780768403321 996 $aSpeaking the incomprehensible God$93818507 997 $aUNINA