| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 589 pages) |
| Contents |
Acquinas : life and works / Jean-Pierre Torrell -- Aquinas and Aristotle / James Doig -- Augustine to Aquinas (Latin-Christian authors) / Alexander Fidora -- Aquinas, Plato, and neoplatonism / Wayne J. Hankey -- Aquinas and Jewish and Islamic authors / David B. Burrell -- Being / John F. Wippel -- Matter, form, and individuation / Jeffrey E. Bower -- Causation / Michael Rota -- The five ways / Timothy Pawl -- God's simplicity / Eleonore Stump -- God's goodness / Ludger Honnefelder -- God's knowledge and will / James Brent -- God's impassibility, immutability, and eternality / Brian Leftow -- God's omnipotence / Brian Leftow -- Human freedom and agency / Thomas Williams -- Emotions / Peter King -- Happiness / Brian Davies -- Law and natural law / Michael Baur -- Conscience and synderesis / Tobias Hoffmann -- Virtues and vices / Jean Porter -- Practical reasoning / Thomas M. Osborne, Jr. -- The theological virtues / Joseph Wawrykow -- Human knowledge / Martin Pickavé -- The intellectual virtues / Tobias Hoffmann -- The relation of reason to faith / Bruno Niederbacher -- Philosophy of mind and human nature / Robert Pasnau -- Theory of language / Gyula Klima -- The limits of language and the notion of analogy / Brian Davies -- Providence and the problem of evil / Eleonore Stump -- The Trinity / Gilles Emery -- Incarnation / Michael Gorman -- The saving work of Christ / Rik Van Nieuwenhove -- Sacraments / Dominic Holtz -- Resurrection and the separated soul / Eleonore Stump -- Prayer / Brian Davies -- The gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit / Andrew Pinsent -- The development of Aquinas's thought / Giorgio Pini -- The influence of Aquinas / Christopher Upham |
| Summary |
Thomas Aquinas (1224/6–1274) lived an active, demanding academic and ecclesiastical life that ended while he was still comparatively young. He nonetheless produced many works, varying in length from a few pages to a few volumes. The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas is an introduction to this influential author and a guide to his thought on almost all the major topics on which he wrote. The book begins with an account of Aquinas's life and works. The next section contains a series of articles that set Aquinas in his intellectual context. They focus on the philosophical sources that are likely to have influenced his thinking, the most prominent of which were certain Greek philosophers (chiefly Aristotle), Latin Christian writers (such as Augustine), and Jewish and Islamic authors (such as Maimonides and Avicenna). The subsequent parts of the book address topics that Aquinas himself discussed. These include metaphysics, the existence and nature of God, ethics and action theory, epistemology, philosophy of mind and human nature, the nature of language, and an array of theological topics, including Trinity, Incarnation, sacraments, resurrection, and the problem of evil, among others. These articles include more than thirty contributions on topics central to Aquinas's own worldview. The final articles of the volume address the development of Aquinas's thought and its historical influence |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
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| SUBJECT |
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 fast |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Davies, Brian, 1951- editor.
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Stump, Eleonore, 1947- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780199947119 |
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0199947112 |
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9780199940165 |
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0199940169 |
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