Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Plantinga presents three arguments against Thomistic divine simplicity. Concepts can apply univocally to God, even if language to describe God is limited, fragmentary, halting, and inchoate. [ 28 ] In the concept of something like being a horse, for something to be a horse is known; the concept applies to an object if the object is a horse.
The Thomistic notion of merit is crucial to such tradition's understanding of the Last Judgment and the subsequent beatific vision. As it has been already mentioned regarding Aquinas' treatment of happiness in life, the fullness of the divine promises for those who perform meritorious actions is to be found only in Heaven.
Speaking on the Thomistic interpretation of transubstantiation, Eastern Orthodox theologian Vladimir Lossky states Roman Catholicism rationalizes even the sacrament of the Eucharist : it interprets spiritual action as purely material and debases the sacrament to such an extent that it becomes in its view a kind of atomistic miracle.
Up to chapter 36 of the first part, Thomas discusses the doctrine of God's oneness and other aspects which are philosophically deductible, namely the divine necessity, eternity, immutability, simplicity, identity of being and essence, not belonging to any genus nor being a species, being incorporeal, omnipotent and infinite, containing every ...
Classical theism is characterized by a set of core attributes that define God as absolute, perfect, and transcendent. These attributes include divine simplicity, aseity, immutability, eternality, omnipotence, omniscience, and omnibenevolence, each of which has been developed and refined through centuries of philosophical and theological discourse.
Scholasticism; Apophatic theology; Aseity; Divine simplicity; Analogia entis; Quinque viae; Beatific vision; Actus purus; Actus essendi; Primum Movens; Correspondence ...
Thomas Aquinas OP (/ ə ˈ k w aɪ n ə s / ⓘ ə-KWY-nəs; Italian: Tommaso d'Aquino, lit. 'Thomas of Aquino'; c. 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian [6] Dominican friar and priest, the foremost Scholastic thinker, [7] as well as one of the most influential philosophers and theologians in the Western tradition. [8]
Ortlund has defended the doctrine of divine simplicity and the Thomistic view of the beatific vision. [31] [32] [33] [independent source needed]