Thomas Aquinas on seeing God: the beatific vision in his Commentary on Peter Lombard's Sentences IV.49.2

"Thomas Aquinas's first eschatological account of the beatific vision 'face-to-face', as presented in his commentary on Peter Lombard's Sentences, integrates the theological discourse of his times with newly available philosophical reasoning. This book provides a translation...

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Main Author: Thomas von Aquin, Heiliger 1225-1274 (Author)
Other Authors: Krause, Katja 1980- (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Milwaukee, WI Marquette University Press [2020]
Series:Mediaeval philosophical texts in translation no. 53
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Summary:"Thomas Aquinas's first eschatological account of the beatific vision 'face-to-face', as presented in his commentary on Peter Lombard's Sentences, integrates the theological discourse of his times with newly available philosophical reasoning. This book provides a translation of book 4, distinction 49, question 2 of his commentary, and comprehensively examines, in the introductions and notes, how Aquinas solved the deepest conceptual dilemmas of his predecessors"--
Physical Description:xiv, 280 Seiten 23 cm
ISBN:9780874622652