Why Creation? Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas on God as Creative Good

Keane, Kevin

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Divine Action and The Christian God1

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“…The authors of the Summa Fratris Alexandri suggested that we may be making a 'cosmocentric' or 'cosmo-morphic' error in assuming that goodness is secondary to being in the Godhead. 19 Since nature refers to action, creation and Incarnation find their sources in the divine nature understood as a principle of action rather than in the divine essence. 20 The Franciscan theologian Bonaventure (1217-1274) was a student of Alexander of Hales and clearly advanced his conception of God as Trinity.…”

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Does God ‘act’ in Creation? A Bonaventurian Response

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Does God ‘act’ in Creation? A Bonaventurian Response

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2003

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The Mystery of Existence: Why Is There Anything at All?

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From Metaphysics to Kataphysics: Bonaventure's ‘Good’ Creation

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The question of ecology is fundamentally a question of relatedness. Is the Christian tradition, at once incarnational and other-worldly, responsible for the ecological crisis? This article examines the position of Bonaventure whose unique theologicalphilosophical synthesis leads to a new understanding of created reality, which I term 'kataphysics'. The foundation of kataphysics begins with Bonaventure's understanding of philosophy as a heteronymous discipline, insofar as philosophy is completed and perfected in theology. From this position he develops an understanding of Being as Goodness based on the Trinity. Bonaventure's integral relationship between Trinity and creation leads to an understanding of created reality as essentially good and intrinsically relational. The integral relation between Trinity and creation through the divine Word gives rise to a theological metaphysics; the metaphysical question becomes the christological question and hence a new understanding of created reality, kataphysics, emerges which involves relatedness. It is suggested that kataphysics undergirds a Christian philosophy of nature which has implications for an ecological stance today.

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Why Creation? Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas on God as Creative Good

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Does God ‘act’ in Creation? A Bonaventurian Response

Does God ‘act’ in Creation? A Bonaventurian Response

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From Metaphysics to Kataphysics: Bonaventure's ‘Good’ Creation

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