Veritas Divina: Aquinas on Divine Truth
Some Philosophy of Religion
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Word Count
62,000 words, Guess
Page Count
248 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- ISBN-101890318930
- ISBN-139781890318932
- LibraryThing9562996
- Library of Congress Control Number00045719
- OCLC Control Number45023355
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781890318932
- Open LibraryOL12206846M
Classifications
- LCCB765.T5B63 2000
- LCCB765.T5 B63 2000
Description
"This book does some philosophy of religion. It takes as its point of departure what Aquinas calls divine truth (veritas divina), i.e., the collection of truths revealed to man by God. And it tries to make as clear as possible what Aquinas says about some of these revealed truths. Then it agrees or disagrees with what he says, as needed, for reasons of various sorts, whether philosophical, theological, scientific, historical, etc. - of whatever sort, just so long as they are relevant and cogent; to do these things as well as possible, if only in a small way - pro nostro modulo, as Aquinas puts it, in describing what he intends to do as the author of the Summa Contra Gentiles. Veritas Divina includes not only certain truths which are attainable by natural reason, like truths about certain aspects of the virtue of religion, of prayer, of pain and suffering, of friendship, of death; but also certain truths which are not attainable by natural reason, like truths about the Trinity, the Incarnation, the Eucharist, Purgatory, Heaven, Hell."--BOOK JACKET.
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