Speaking the incomprehensible God [[electronic resource] ] : Thomas Aquinas on the interplay of positive and negative theology / / Gregory P. Rocca |
Autore | Rocca Gregory P. <1949-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (440 p.) |
Disciplina | 230/.2/092 |
Soggetto topico |
God (Christianity) - Knowableness - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500
Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500 |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8132-1648-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 God
The 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 Primary 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 The 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 God 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 Primacy and Dependence in Divine Predication |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455701403321 |
Rocca Gregory P. <1949-> | ||
Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, c2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Speaking the incomprehensible God [[electronic resource] ] : Thomas Aquinas on the interplay of positive and negative theology / / Gregory P. Rocca |
Autore | Rocca Gregory P. <1949-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (440 p.) |
Disciplina | 230/.2/092 |
Soggetto topico |
God (Christianity) - Knowableness - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500
Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500 |
ISBN | 0-8132-1648-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 God
The 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 Primary 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 The 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 God 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 Primacy and Dependence in Divine Predication |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780768403321 |
Rocca Gregory P. <1949-> | ||
Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, c2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Speaking the incomprehensible God : Thomas Aquinas on the interplay of positive and negative theology / / Gregory P. Rocca |
Autore | Rocca Gregory P. <1949-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (440 p.) |
Disciplina | 230/.2/092 |
Soggetto topico |
God (Christianity) - Knowableness - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500
Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500 |
ISBN | 0-8132-1648-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 God
The 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 Primary 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 The 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 God 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 Primacy and Dependence in Divine Predication |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807471103321 |
Rocca Gregory P. <1949-> | ||
Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, c2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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