Knowledge and faith in Thomas Aquinas

This book offers a revisionary account of key epistemological concepts and doctrines of St Thomas Aquinas, particularly his concept of scientia (science), and proposes a new interpretation of the purpose and composition of Aquinas's most mature and influential work, the Summa theologiae, which presents the scientia of sacred doctrine, i.e. Christian theology. Contrary to the standard interpretation of it as a work for neophytes in theology, Jenkins argues that it is in fact a pedagogical work intended as the culmination of philosophical and theological studies of very gifted students. Jenkins considers our knowledge of the principles of a science. He argues that rational assent to the principles of sacred doctrine, the articles of faith, is due to the influence of grace on one's cognitive powers, because of which one is able immediately to apprehend these propositions as divinely revealed. His study will be of interest to readers in philosophy, theology and medieval studies.

המשפט הראשון: "We think that we have scientia simpliciter, and not in a sophistical way, accidentally," writes Aristotle at the beginning of chapter two of the first book of the Posterior Analytics.

שנה

1997

שפה

English

הוצאה

Cambridge University Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

283

ISBN

9780521044011

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