INDEX

INDEX

INDEX

absentmindedness of Thomas, 8–9

aesthetic arrest, 91

Albert the Great, 6

Allen, Woody, 87

Ambrose, 2, 115

American dream, 114

analogy of being (analogia entis), 56

angels, 43, 45, 49, 82, 92, 94, 98

Annunciation, 19, 74

anonymous Christianity, 32

Anselm, 26, 34, 48, 75, 97

anti-doctrine, 11, 48

Apollinaris, 32

Aristotle

and education of Thomas, 6

engagement of Thomas with: on causality, 55; on creation, 81; on divine knowledge, 65; on dualism (anthropological), 96; on generation/ corruption, 43; on goodness, 52; on mind, 103; on motion, 39; on time, 61; on wealth, 113

rediscovery of in thirteenth century, 4, 16

Augustine

anthropology of, 103

Christocentrism of, 121

and created goods, enjoyment of, 118

and incomprehensibility of God, 17

on fittingness of Incarnation, 27

and Platonism, influence of, 97

and presence of God, 55, 64

and theology/spirituality relationship, 2

on transcendence of God, 42

Balthasar, Hans Urs von, 2, 86

Barth, Karl, 56

beatific vision, 19, 41, 92, 96, 119–120

beauty

of creation, 42, 88–89, 90–94, 108

of God, 41, 60

objectivity of, 90–91

of the resurrected flesh, 102

Benedictines, 3

Bernard of Clairvaux, 30–31, 96, 103

biblical commentaries of Thomas, 7–8

big bang cosmogony, 40

body (human)

informed by soul, 97–98

resurrected, 101–103, 120

See also dualism, body-soul

Bonaventure, 21

Buddhism, 17, 111

burning bush, 50

Calvin, John, 92

Campbell, Joseph, 113–114

Chalcedonian Christology, 29

Chesterton, G.K., 5, 87, 119

Christocentrism of Thomas, 1–3, 10–12, 15, 35, 121

Clark, Kenneth, 97

Cologne, Thomas’ studies in, 6

concupiscence, 28, 46, 113–114

contemplation, 3, 8, 13, 28, 52, 83, 92, 119

creation

ex nihilo, 12, 76–79

metaphysics of, 55, 73, 79–83

creativity of God, 93, 102–103

da Vinci, Leonardo, 95

death of Thomas, 8–10

December 6 incident (1273), 9–10

deification, 12, 96

deism, 39

de Lubac, Henri, 78n11

De potentia Dei, 73, 79, 84, 87

demons, 57–58

Descartes, René, 19, 39, 75

devil, 85

Dionysius. See Pseudo-Dionysius

divine spark, 103, 108

Dominican order, 4–6

Dominic de Guzman, 4

dualism (moral ontology), 57, 77, 84

dualism, body-soul, 95–99, 102

“dumb ox,” 6

Eckhart, Meister, 72, 79, 82, 121

ecstasy

as nature of God, 15, 25–28, 37, 67–68, 71

as man’s response to God, 9, 12, 53, 63, 81–82, 92, 117–122

expressed in Jesus, 11–12, 15, 25–32, 118, 121

education of Thomas, 3–6

empiricism, 65

Enlightenment, the, 19

essence/existence distinction, 49–50

essence of God, 49–51

eternity of God, 60–63

evil

metaphysics of, 84–86

problem of, 87–90

See also sin

existence of God, arguments for

from motion, 39–42

from possibility and necessity, 42–46

fallen mind, 20–21, 38, 65

Fathers of the Church, 2, 20

See also individual Fathers by name

Feuerbach, Ludwig, 109–110

final end, 105–106, 109–119

See also ecstasy

See also happiness

finitude, 11, 27–28, 45–47, 88–89, 117

first mover, 39–42, 111

five ways, 38

See also ways (viae)

Fossa Nuova, Cistercian monastery of, 10

Francis de Sales, 121

Francis of Assisi, 4, 82–83

Freud, Sigmund, 109–110

Genesis, book of, 77, 103

genus of God, 51

Gnostics, 77

God-world relationship, 54–57, 78–84

See also secular-sacred distinction

goodness of God, 52–53

Grail legends, 112–113

Gregory of Nyssa, 97, 103

habitual grace of Jesus, 29–31

happiness, desire for, 33, 42, 111–112, 119

headship of Jesus, 31–32

hedonism, 116

Hegel, G.W.F., 101

Heidegger, Martin, 44

hell, 57, 62

Hellenistic philosophy, 97

Hinduism, 108

Holocaust, the, 88

Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 80

humanism, 95–96, 120

humanity of Jesus, 28–35, 41, 55, 81, 97

human and divine will of Jesus, 32–34

Hume, David, 87

“I Am Who I Am,” 50–51

idolatry, 11, 17, 48–51

Ignatius of Loyola, 36

image of God (imago Dei), 96, 103–109, 120

images in the divine mind, 66

imitatio Christi (imitation of Christ), 2, 32, 118, 121

immateriality of God, 64

immateriality of mind, 64

immortality of soul, 4, 96–97, 101, 120

immutability of God, 58–60, 61, 69, 71

Incarnation

convenient necessity of, 26–27

fittingness of, 24–26

as joining of two ecstasies, 11, 15, 22–28

purpose of, 27–28, 40

as revealing God-world relationship, 34, 54–56, 81–82, 100

See also Chalcedonian Christology

Inferno (Dante), 116

ipsum esse subsistens, 104

Irenaeus, 96

Isaiah, book of, 48, 54, 84–85

Jansenism, 99

Jerome, 2

Job, book of, 89–90

John, Gospel of

prologue of, 27–28

on sharing in Christ, 31

woman at the well, 46–47, 114–115

John of the Cross, 2, 36, 103, 121

Joyce, James, 90–91

Julius II, Pope, 95

Jung, Carl G., 71, 100, 108, 117–118

kidnapping of Thomas, 5

knowledge of God, 19–20, 63–66, 99–101

Landulf and Theodora (parents of Thomas), 3

Leviathan, 89

Lonergan, Bernard, 104

Lorenzo de Medici, 95

Louis IX, King, 9

love of God, 68–70, 118–120

Luther, Martin, 20, 36, 106

Lyons, Second Council of, 10

magister of theology, 6–7

Malachi, book of, 58

Manichees, 9, 98

manuductiones (leading by the hand), 38

See also ways (viae)

Marx, Karl, 109–110

materialism (ontological), 65

matter, 48–49, 70, 95–96, 99–100

mediator, Jesus as, 30–31

mendicant movement, 4

Merton, Thomas, 42, 83–84, 121

Michelangelo, 95, 98

Middle Ages, 95–96, 113

midlife crises, 10, 117–118

modal transcendence, 56–57

Monte Cassino, abbey of, 3, 5

Moses, 50–51

motion (motus)

argument from, 39–42

defined, 39, 59, 61

leitmotif of Summa theologiae, 40

Muslims, 8, 20

mysticism

and Aristotle, 4

and passivity, 17

of Thomas, 1–2, 9–10, 92

See also individual mystics by name

nature-grace interrelationship, 21, 78

necessary beings, 45

Newtonian physics, 19

Nicholas of Cusa, 59–60

nonbeing

as brought into being, 39, 73, 75

of evil, 57–58, 85–86

as threat of finitude, 43, 45–46

noncompetitive relationship between God and creatures, 34, 54, 110

See also God-world relationship

“Non nisi te, Domine,” 1

Origen, 2, 97–98, 103, 121

otherness of God, 21, 23, 56–57

See also strangeness of God

pagan philosophy, 20–21, 99

panentheism, 82

pantheism, 54, 72, 82

papal court, 8

passions, 69–70, 99

Paul (Apostle), 24, 63–64

Peter Lombard, 6

Peter of Ireland, 4, 6

philosophy

Cartesian, 19

in education of Thomas, 4

and teaching responsibility of Thomas, 5

and theology, 20–21, 97

Pieper, Josef, 5, 100–101

Plato and Platonism, 95–100

Plotinus, 92, 99–100

power of God, 48, 58, 73–76, 85

predestination, 31, 105–106

Pseudo-Dionysius, 2, 24–25, 52, 60

puritanism, 99

quaestio disputata (disputed question), 7

Rahner, Karl, 29, 32

rationalism and Thomas, 1–2, 17–18, 39, 71, 90

Reginald of Piperno, 9–10

Renaissance, 95–96, 113

Resurrection of Jesus, 22–23, 68

revelation, 16–18, 22–24, 28–29, 35, 40, 48

Roccasecca, Italy, 3, 5

Roman Missal, 47

Rudolf Otto, 105

sacra doctrina (sacred doctrine), 16–19, 21–22

See also theology

sacra pagina (sacred page), 3, 7

sacramental sensibility of Thomas, 100

salus (health), 18

salvation

as goal of theology, 2–3, 22

through Incarnation, 27, 35, 74

movement toward, 40, 86, 103

necessity of revelation for, 16, 18, 23

of the unbaptized, 20, 32

Samaritan woman at well, 46–47, 114–115

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 110

Schelling, F.W.J., 101

secular architecture, 113–114

secular-sacred distinction, 21, 61, 77–78, 94

secular wisdom, Thomas’ engagement with, 20–22

See also philosophy

self-diffusiveness of the good, 24–25, 73

self-forgetfulness of God, 15, 25, 29, 35, 74, 121

Sermon on the Mount, 83

Shea, John, 27

Si comprehendis, non est Deus, 17

Simon, Paul, 116

simplicity of God, 48–51, 76

sin

and the body, 98–99

diversity of, 36

in greater context of the good, 57–58, 86, 106–108

as rivalry with God, 35, 61–62, 69, 79, 94, 107

See also evil

Song of Songs, 10, 31, 103

soul of Jesus, 29–30

soul (human)

as capacity for universe, 104, 117

rediscovered in modern culture, 108

See also immortality of soul

Spielberg, Steven, 105

spirituality of Thomas, 13, 15, 18, 20–23, 32, 35–37

strangeness of God, 36, 56, 61

See also otherness of God

suicide, 111–112, 117

Summa contra Gentiles, 8, 102

Summa theologiae

composition of, 8

exitus-reditus structure, 10

Jesus in, 10–11

organization of, 16n1

prima pars, 33, 40, 53

tertia pars, 22, 29, 32, 39, 40

teaching career of Thomas, 8

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 77–78

Teresa of Avila, 121

theological anthropology of Thomas, 96, 117, 120

theology

of Thomas: and biblical commentary, 3; Christocentrism of, 11–12, 22–23; influence of on mystical theologians, 2; philosophy, engaged with, 16–17, 19–22; negative method of, 48; and proofs for existence of God, 15, 38, 40; and rationalism, charge of, 15, 20; revelation-based, 20; spirituality of 2–3, 7, 13, 18

nature of: as existential, 19; Thomas on, 13, 16; not merely academic, 18

Thérèse of Lisieux, 121

Thompson, Francis, 107

Tillich, Paul, 2, 46, 51, 76, 78, 114, 117

time, 60–63

transcendence of God, 23–25, 47, 56–57,

University of Bologna, 4

University of Naples, 3–4, 8–9

University of Paris, 4, 6–8, 72

style of study, 6

unknowability of God, 11, 23

via remotionis, 48

Voltaire, 39

voluntarism, 75

Warhol, Andy, 116

way (via)

Jesus as, 10, 22–23

referring to proofs, 38–39

See also via remotionis

wheel of fortune, 116

will, the, 33–34, 86, 88, 110–111

will of God, 67–68

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 37

World War I, 76

World War II, 83

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