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1 online resource (338 pages) |
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Challenges in Contemporary Theology |
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Challenges in contemporary theology.
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Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Bibliographic Note; List of Abbreviations; 1: Aquinas on the Supreme Court -- and on the Bible, or How to Read This Book; Aquinas on the Bible and the Court; Aquinas and the Court in New Natural Law Theory; How to Read Aquinas; How to Read This Book; Part I: Aquinas on the failure of natural law; Part II: Aquinas on the redemption of natural law; Note; References; 2: What Aquinas Thinks We Cannot Know; Knowledge and Unfathomability Belong Together; We cannot know the essence of God; We cannot know things; We cannot know singulars |
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We cannot know conclusions from preceptsNature Belongs Together with Failure; Nature Belongs Together with Grace; Note; References; 3: How God Moves Creatures: For and Against Natural Law; Aquinas Meets Finnis; Ten Things that Natural Law Is For; Natural law is for getting leverage over against the community as a whole; Natural law is for sheltering the virtues from fate; Natural law refers to the minimal practices of a craft; Natural law is for uniting love and gravity; Natural law is for talking about movement before it is for talking about sentences |
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A "precept" (prae + captus) of natural law is for "capturing in advance" first of all the works of virtue in actionIn subsequent reflection, a "precept" of natural law is for confirming that scripture has pre-captured the insights of Aristotle; A debitum is first for displaying the due proportions of nature's laws and only second for bringing them to speech in practices of diagnosis and disagreement; "Instructio" is for furnishing, equipping, or arming before it is for teaching sentences; Propositions are about the eucharist before they are about sentences; Love and Gravity; Notes |
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Is natural law an alias of the Truth of God, or a different character altogether?What happened to natural law?; How does Aquinas portray natural law under detention?; How did its detention affect its human captors?; Natural Law and Natural Knowledge of God in Parallel; Notes; References; 6: How the Narrative Sexualizes Nature's Decline; Improving the Standard Account; Rejoining what time has put asunder; Seeing parts in terms of wholes; Christianizing Aristotle; Commentary on Romans; The condemnation at Romans 1:26; The unraveling of the assumed correspondences |
| Summary |
This new work clarifies Aquinas' concept of natural law through his biblical commentaries, and explores its applications to U.S. constitutional law. The first time the use of Aquinas on the U.S. Supreme Court has been explored in depth, and its applications tested through a rigorous reading of the biblical commentariesShows how key judgments in the Supreme Court have rested on medieval natural law, and applies critical gender theory to discuss problems with these applicationsOffers new research data to give a different picture of Aquinas and natural law, and a f |
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References4: How Aquinas Reads Scripture; An Interpreter's License; A Sample of Figurative Exegesis; An Ordered Diversity: Fitting Explications and Spiritual Senses; Theological Interests and Purposes; An Interpreter's Virtues (Applying Stout) ; Between Providence and Prayer; Notes; References; 5: How the Law of Nature Is a Character in Decline; Natural Law in the Commentary on Romans 1; In what light does the revelation of God's wrath show the Truth of God?; What was its original character?; Does the Truth of God include natural law? |
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Aquinas on disputes about scripture |
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Print version record |
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Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
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Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 fast |
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Natural law.
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Ethics
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Natural law
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781118397152 |
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1118397150 |
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