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

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

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.

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Superior document:Studies in the History of Christian Traditions Series ; Volume 69
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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)
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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.

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