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Author Rocca, Gregory P., 1949-

Title Speaking the incomprehensible God : Thomas Aquinas on the interplay of positive and negative theology / Gregory P. Rocca
Published Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 412 pages)
Contents A brief survey of negative theology in the hellenistic and patristic traditions -- God's dual incomprehensibility in Aquinas -- Aquinas' Via negativa -- Analogy in Aristotle -- The various meanings of analogy in Aquinas -- The unity and diversity of analogy as a web of predication -- Analogy as judgment in Aquinas -- Aquinas and the existence of God the creator -- Aquinas' crucial theological truths -- Aquinas' positive theology of the divine names -- The distinction between the reality signified and the manner of signification -- Conclusion : speaking the incomprehensible God
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-386) and indexes
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Subject Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
SUBJECT Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 fast
Thomas (von Aquin) swd
Subject God (Christianity) -- Knowableness -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
God -- Knowableness -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Systematic.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
PHILOSOPHY -- Religious.
Gotteserkenntnis
Negatieve theologie.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813216485
0813216486
9780813215747
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