Analogical Understanding of Divine Causality in Thomas Aquinas

Roszak, Piotr

doi:10.24204/ejpr.v9i4.1789

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“…Furthermore, this must be affirmed in the natural light of reason by means of analogical ascent (Roszak 2017). Even assuming that God reveals himself; therefore, revelation is a rational operation.…”

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God as Highest Truth According to Aquinas

Martı́nez

2021

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Contemporary public opinion has come to assume that we live in the post-truth era, in which judgments on the most relevant realities of human life have been left in the hands of mere emotions. In such a context, it is very opportune to redirect our gaze toward the concept of truth, in order to help to adequately ground such a primordial reality as that of the personal being. Furthermore, this is the object of the present research, following the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. To this end, we attempt to argue that the primacy in the analogical significance of the truth corresponds precisely to the person, as a subsistent being whose esse is intelligible to himself. Following the analogical ascent, we consequently arrive at God, who is absolutely intelligible to himself. We have to conclude, therefore, that the personal God is the highest truth. As a corollary to this argument, we add that the perfective dynamism of the personal life is realized in an eminent way in the communication of truth through words, also in God.

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Section: In C)mentioning

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God as Highest Truth According to Aquinas

Martı́nez

2021

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“…God is not the object of science, so it means that science does not deal with Him directly but can speak about the effects of this belief or signs of God's activity in the world (Artigas 2000). However, it does not establish causal relations between the First Cause and secondary causes (Roszak 2017;Silva 2011). These questions are not the subject of science.…”

Section: Contemporary Philosophical Contexts: Panentheism and Post-thmentioning

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Seeing God. Thomas Aquinas on Divine Presence in the World

Roszak¹,

Huzarek²

2019

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How to recognize the presence of God in the world? Thomas Aquinas' proposition, based on the efficient, exemplary and intentional causality, including both the natural level and grace, avoids several simplifications, the consequence of which is transcendent blindness. On the one hand, it does not allow to fall into a panentheistic reductionism involving God into the game of His variability in relation to the changing world. The sensitivity of Thomas in interpreting a real existing world makes it impossible to close the subject in the ''house without windows'', from where God can only be presumed. On the other hand, the proposal of Aquinas avoids the radical transcendence of God, according to which He has nothing to do with the world.

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“…Therefore, the action of God is not the action that would bypass natural causes -like a kind of circumvention. If that were the case, such model of Godworld relationship based on a contrastive stance would be a negation of the analogical understanding of divine causality (Ramage 2020;Roszak 2017).…”

Section: Nature As Ars and Ordomentioning

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Imperfectly perfect universe? Emerging natural order in Thomas Aquinas

Roszak

2022

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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Scientific data indicate that violence is involved in the emergence of higher forms of life from lower forms. This seems incompatible with the God of Christian revelation, who is the source of love and mercy. Current attempts to explain this tension usually focus on two approaches: the ‘gift of freedom’ (McLeish) or the ‘only way’ theory (Southgate). I will argue that Thomas Aquinas’ understanding of nature is able to provide an interesting framework for the challenges posed by the way of the appearance of life. The article will present Aquinas’ theology of nature, which seems to fit perfectly with the current state of scientific knowledge, especially when considering the relationship between God and creation.Contribution: The article shows that the problem of the interpretation of paradise in the Christian tradition may be related to the influence of the Neoplatonic tradition, which reduces paradise to the idealistic sphere. Attention is drawn to the concept of perfection, which does not mean the absence of any disvalue in the natural world, but is a relational concept. The death of animals and natural evil need not be explained by moral evil, but requires a broader interpretation of the value of the natural order.

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Analogical Understanding of Divine Causality in Thomas Aquinas

Cited by 10 publications

References 16 publications

God as Highest Truth According to Aquinas

God as Highest Truth According to Aquinas

Seeing God. Thomas Aquinas on Divine Presence in the World

Imperfectly perfect universe? Emerging natural order in Thomas Aquinas

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