Ways to God: William Desmond's Recapitulation of Thomas Aquinas's Five Ways
In this article, I explore how William Desmond recovers Thomas Aquinas's Five Ways by offering a new way for considering the relation of God to being. I do so in the context of Charles Taylor's reflections on the immanent frame and the possibility of thinking towards God in the secular age...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
2020
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Philosophy & theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 32, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 149-172 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Desmond, William 1951-
/ Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274
/ Proof of God's existence
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NBC Doctrine of God |
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| Summary: | In this article, I explore how William Desmond recovers Thomas Aquinas's Five Ways by offering a new way for considering the relation of God to being. I do so in the context of Charles Taylor's reflections on the immanent frame and the possibility of thinking towards God in the secular age. Desmond renews Aquinas proofs by seeing in them a hermeneutic openness to God. Considering each of Aquinas's five ways through the lens of Desmond's philosophy, I argue that each proof reveals God's ways of being within being as a path to recovering an awareness of God's presence in the world. |
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| ISSN: | 2153-828X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Philosophy & theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/philtheol2021728143 |