Ideas in God According to Saint Thomas Aquinas : : Sources and Synthesis / / Vivian Boland.

• Superior document: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions Series ; Volume 69
• VerfasserIn: Boland, Vivian,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : EJ. Brill,, [1996]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of Christianity in East Asia ; Volume 69.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 pages)

A twofold tradition, through Augustine and Dionysius, carried the doctrine of 'divine ideas' to Aquinas. It continues to play a key role in his theology and his handling of it allows us to asses the nature of his unique synthesis.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: "The Thoughts of God" -- A. God's Knowledge of Creation -- B. The Divine "Ideas" -- C. Thomas Aquinas on the Ideas -- D. The Sources of Saint Thomas's Thought -- E. Outline of the Thesis -- Part I: The Sources -- Chapter One: The Ideas in the Divine Mind -- A. Plato's Timaeus -- B. The Platonist Tradition -- C. Philo: Plato among the Jews -- D. Augustine: Plato among the Christians -- Conclusion to Chapter One -- Chapter Two: The Ideas are the Divine Mind -- A. Plotinus -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Plotinian Noυς -- 3. Sources of Plotinus on Noυς -- B. Latin Christian Neoplatonism -- 1. The Religious Quest, Pagan And Christian -- 2. Marius Victorinus On The Trinity -- 3. Augustine on the Trinity -- 4. Augustine on Creation: Rationes Aeternae and Verbum -- 5. The Trinity, Creation and the Ideas -- 6. Boethius -- Chapter Three: The Vision of Dionysius-Divine Ideas and Divine Attributes -- A. The Theology of Dionysius -- 1. The Corpus Areopagiticum -- 2. The Status of Aὐτo-Realities in Divine Names -- 3. The Transcendent God, Cause of All -- 4. Divine Names II -- 5. Participations, Gifts, Powers, Causes -- 6. The Names of God - Divine Names IV-XIII -- 7. Παραδείγματα - The Divine Ideas -- B. The Philosophy of Proclus -- 1. Henads, Participation, Causality -- 2. Proclus on the Ideas -- C. Dionysius and Proclus Introduction -- 1. Objective Links -- 2. A Radical Difference -- 3. The Mystery "Hidden Amid The Revelation" -- 4. The Dionysian Tradition -- Conclusion to Chapter Three -- Chapter Four: The Aristotelian Tradition and the Divine Ideas Introduction -- A. The Philosophy of Aristotle -- 1. Aristotle's Critique of Plato's Theory of Ideas -- 2. Aristotle's Account of First Principles -- 3. Aristotle on Intelligence.

B. The Aristotelian Tradition -- 1. Pagan Peripatetics -- 2. Islamic Philosophers -- 3. Christian Aristotelians -- Part II: The Synthesis -- Chapter Five: Divine Knowledge and Divine Ideas Introduction -- A. Divine Knowledge -- B. Saint Thomas on the Divine Ideas -- 1. In I Sententiarum 36 on the Divine Ideas -- 2. Quaestiones Disputatae de Veritate 3 on the Divine Ideas -- 3. Summa Theologiae I,15 on the Divine Ideas -- C. The Disappearance of the Ideas in the Summa Contra Gentiles -- 1. Revisions and Dating -- 2. Summa Contra Gentiles: On Divine Knowledge -- 3. The Suppressed Autograph of the Summa Contra Gentiles -- D. The Extent of the Ideas -- 1. Ideas of Individuals -- 2. An Idea of Materia Prima? -- 3. Ideas of Possibles -- 4. Ideas of Accidents -- 5. An Idea of Evil? -- Conclusion to Chapter Five -- Chapter Six: The Word, Creation, Providence and the Ideas -- A. The Word of God and the Ideas -- 1. The Word of the Father -- 2. The Word of Creation -- 3. The Word in Creation -- 4. Word and Idea -- B. The Ideas in the Theology of Creation -- 1. Characteristics of Intelligent Causality -- 2. Ideas in Practical and Speculative Knowledge -- 3. The Ideas and God's Will -- 4. God as Exemplar Cause -- 5. Rationes as Attributes and Rationes Rerum -- 6. A Comment on Participation -- C. Providence and the Ideas -- 1. Providence-A Philosophical and Theological Issue -- 2. Providence and God's Will -- 3. The Variety and Beauty of Creation -- 4. Participating in Providence -- 5. Providence and the Ideas -- D. The Wise Love of God -- Chapter Seven: The Tradition of Divine Ideas and its Transformation in the Synthesis of Saint Thomas Introduction -- A. Saint Thomas and Augustine on Knowledge -- 1. Saint Thomas' Debt to Augustine -- 2. Saint Thomas' Critical Acceptance of Augustine -- 3. The Ideas in Creaturely Knowledge.

B. Saint Thomas and Aristotle on the Good Introduction -- 1. Saint Thomas's Knowledge of Plato through Aristotle -- 2. Plato, Aristotle and Saint Thomas on the Good -- 3. Aristotle on God, Creation and Providence -- 4. An Acceptable Theory of Ideas -- C. Saint Thomas and Dionysius on Being Introduction -- 1. The Creative Causality of God -- 2. Rejection of Diverse Causal Principles -- 3. The Aὐτo-Realities -- 4. Divine Names XI.6 -- 5. Aὐτo-Realities as Exemplars -- 6. The Likeness of God in Things -- D. Super Librum de Causis-Towards a Final Resolution Introduction -- 1. A Correct Theodicy -- 2. Sources of Saint Thomas in In Librum de Causis -- 3. Towards a Final Resolution -- General Conclusion -- Part One: The Sources -- Part Two: The Synthesis -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Studies in the History of Christian Thought.