Thomas Aquinas on the Beatific Vision: A Christological Deficit
This article argues Aquinas's doctrine of the beatific vision suffers from a twofold christological deficit: (1) Aquinas rarely alludes to an eternally continuing link (whether as cause or as means) between Christ's beatific vision and ours; and (2) for Aquinas the beatific vision is not t...
| Autor principal: | |
|---|---|
| Outros Autores: | |
| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
| Verificar disponibilidade: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Carregar...
|
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Publicado em: |
Presses Universitaires de Louvain, Université Catholique de Louvain
[2018]
|
| Em: |
TheoLogica
Ano: 2018, Volume: 2, Número: 2, Páginas: 129-147 |
| Classificações IxTheo: | KAE Idade Média Central KAH Idade Moderna NBC Deus NBF Cristologia NBQ Escatologia |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
John Owen
B Beatific Vision B Thomas Aquinas B Eschatology B Theophany |
| Acesso em linha: |
Volltext (doi) Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Resumo: | This article argues Aquinas's doctrine of the beatific vision suffers from a twofold christological deficit: (1) Aquinas rarely alludes to an eternally continuing link (whether as cause or as means) between Christ's beatific vision and ours; and (2) for Aquinas the beatific vision is not theophanic, that is to say, for Aquinas, Christ is not the object of the beatific vision; instead, he maintains the divine essence constitutes the object. Even if Aquinas were to have followed his "principle of the maximum" in the unfinished third part of the Summa and so had discussed Christ's own beatific vision as the cause of the saints' beatific vision, he would still have ended up with a christological deficit, inasmuch as Christ would still not be the means and the object of the saints' beatific vision. For a more christologically robust way forward, I draw on John Owen and several other Puritan theologians, who treat the beatific vision as the climactic theophany. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 2593-0265 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Thomas Aquinas, the Beatific Vision and the Role of Christ (2018)"
|
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: TheoLogica
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.14428/thl.v2i2.14733 |