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            <title><![CDATA[Quodlibet II.2.1: An Auvergnian Text in Aquinas]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This article takes up the long dormant issue of the relationship of Thomas Aquinas to William of Auvergne. Taking Aquinas’ Quodlibet II, q.2, a.1 as an overlooked point of comparison, this article demonstrates a deep metaphysical compatibility between the Parisian Bishop and the Dominican Friar regarding the essence-existence distinction and even suggests that behind this Quodlibetal question is perhaps William’s De Trinitate I-II and De Universo IIa-IIae 8. Thus, to the extent that one is a follower of Aquinas’ metaphysics of esse, the present paper suggests that they are not merely a Thomist but also (perhaps unknowingly) an Auvergnian.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Aquinas at 800 – Papers from the 2024 Notre Dame Conference: Human Nature and Original Sin in Thomas Aquinas]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The contemporary debate on human nature concerns two distinct issues, identified here as issues of ‘condition’ and ‘content’. These concern respectively the functional legitimacy or the formal use of the very concept of ‘(human) nature’, and –when such a nature is asserted– its defining characteristics. The debate on nature took an important turn when Aquinas integrated the different views of Aristotle and Augustine, both with regard to the condition and the content issue. In this paper, I focus on the epistemological functions of ‘human nature’ as part of the ‘condition’ issue, and on the consequences of original sin and the four wounds of human nature in Aquinas’s theology, as part of the ‘content’ issue.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Aquinas at 800 – Papers from the 2024 Notre Dame Conference: Integrating the Various Human Dimensions into the Vision of God in Heaven]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The beatific vision of God in heaven is at the heart of the Christian faith. Thomas Aquinas affirms that the principal faculty of the human person is the intellect, and that the vision of God will consist primarily in an intellectual operation. The emphasis that Aquinas places on the operation of the intellect could lead one to think that it is an overly intellectualistic conception of what our happiness in heaven will be. On the other hand, contemporary authors such as Hans Boersma point out that in the Thomistic doctrine of the beatific vision the corporeal dimension of the human person is of little relevance. The purpose of this article is to explain how the different dimensions of the human person -intellect, will and corporeality- are integrated in the vision of God in heaven according to Thomistic doctrine.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Thomas Aquinas on the Political Analogy and the Passions of Christ]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In this paper I will address the question whether Aquinas’ political analogy can be properly applied to Christ as having political or despotic rule over his passions. I will argue that a close reading of various texts of Aquinas, especially the more mature Compendium of Theology, leads to the conclusion that Jesus’ reason exercised a despotic rule over his passions, not a political rule. His propassions were totally under the control of his reason and could not resist it; they did not retain “something of their own”, which is the ability to resist reason. The case of Mary’s passions in the writings of Aquinas make this point even more clear.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Aquinas at 800 – Papers from the 2024 Notre Dame Conference: Revisiting Human Law’s Capacity to Cultivate Moral Virtue]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This article offers a new perspective on the topic of human-made law’s capacity to cultivate moral virtue by focusing on two questions. First, is cultivating an individual’s virtue part of the goal of law or only a concomitant effect? Secondly, can our laws play a constructive role in fostering virtues beyond discouraging vices? To the first question, I will intervene in the debate between John Finnis and his interlocutors over the nature of the common good. To the second question, I will show how human law can contribute to key aspects of growth in virtue and thereby poise us to develop habits.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Aquinas at 800 – Papers from the 2024 Notre Dame Conference: The Fittingness of Including Animals in the Glorified Universe]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In this paper, I examine Aquinas’s arguments for the absence of animals in the glorified universe. In my response, I turn to Aquinas’s account of fittingness with respect to God’s nature, utilizing this account to argue that it befits God for some animals to exist in the glorified universe and to be ordered to Him as the final cause. I raise and resolve several potential Aquinian objections to this conclusion and I offer three possible, interrelated reasons as to why God might include animals. In conclusion, I present three additional theological considerations that accord with my conclusion.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Suggestive Note on the Esse of the Eucharist]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This article investigates the esse of the res et sacramentum of the eucharist in the thought of Thomas Aquinas, attempting to fill a lacuna in eucharistic theology. It proceeds from the questions on Christ’s esse in the Disputed Question on the Union of the Incarnate Word and the tertia pars of the Summa Theologiae, with a short synthesis arguing that Christ exists by one esse. Then, it argues that the eucharist exists by this same esse by answering two possible objections, taken from the many instances of the eucharist across the globe and Christ’s unique mode of sacramental presence, to the eucharist only having this one esse.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Aquinas on the Impossibility of Sin in Dreams]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In this article, I discuss how Aquinas weaves together several sources to argue that dreams can never be sinful, although their causes may be. While asleep, no sin can occur because reason cannot function, and reason cannot function because the senses are impeded. I then consider why his treatment of dreams differs from his typical treatment of the effects of sinful acts, which he generally holds to be culpable even if they are not voluntary in their own right. I argue that the relevant difference is that weakening of reason in sleep, a necessary condition of dreaming, is natural rather than voluntary.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Aquinas’ Aesthetics: Objective Beauty and the Moral Good]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Aquinas’ recognition that “those things are beautiful which are pleasing when seen” has been consistently misinterpreted: since Kant, modern aesthetics has taken it as given that reference to an “eye of the beholder” must be understood as indicating a purely subjective response to beauty. This paper discusses how Aquinas anticipates and successfully disproves the claim that aesthetic response is essentially subjective by pointing out that all things in nature possess beauty “according to the nature of each” and by showing that the beautiful must possess honestas, which equates to virtue and thus to the good.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Proceedings of the Second Symposium of the Dionysius Circle: Beauty and Divine Processions: Synthesizing Dionysius, Thomas Aquinas and their Interpretive Traditions]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Dionysius’ account of God’s processions has been interpreted in a range of ways. Thomas Aquinas interprets divine processions as created likenesses of God. The Byzantine tradition interprets them as ἐνέργειαι in God. Neoplatonist readers of Dionysius read them as both divine self-differentiations and activities performed by creatures. Each reading can accommodate some of Dionysius’ claims, but not others. After considering reasons for and against each interpretation, I show how Dionysius’ texts on beauty, which present a phenomenological metaphysics of beauty, provide grounds for synthesizing significant aspects of each. The paper closes with a presentation of that synthesis.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Proceedings of the Second Symposium of the Dionysius Circle: Platonic Participation without Platonic Forms: Thomas Aquinas on the Key Insight of Dionysius’s De divinis nominibus]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[According to Aquinas, the Platonic doctrine of participation can be disentangled from a commitment to the theory of Forms which Aristotle attributes to Plato. In this article, I argue that we can learn three important things from close examination of this key insight. First, we can better understand Aquinas’s view of how the participation of an effect in its cause works. Second, the Platonic doctrine of participation can play an important role in explaining and defending Christian doctrines such as the doctrine of creation and the doctrine of divine simplicity. Third, it is possible to combine the Platonic doctrine of participation with Aristotle’s alternative account of forms into a coherent and powerful metaphysical synthesis.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Proceedings of the Second Symposium of the Dionysius Circle: “Participationes tripliciter considerari possunt”: The Absolute Notion of Esse in Aquinas’s Commentary on the Divine Names]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In this paper, I argue that, for Aquinas, esse commune is the absolute notion of esse. It is absolute, moreover, precisely in the Avicennian sense insofar as it is the consideration of esse as abstracted from intelligible and material modes of being. First, I clarify Dionysius’s distinction between the two senses of per se theonyms, focusing on the Procline provenance of adverbs like ἀπολύτως and ἀρχηγικῶς in the Divine Names. Second, I defend Aquinas’s interpretation and development of Dionysius’s distinction, higlighting his reliance on Avicenna’s threefold consideratio in his account of per se theonyms as absolute natures. I will conclude with suggestions for further research.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Motion of the Soul: Thomas Aquinas and Albert the Great on the Passions]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This paper examines Aquinas’ and Albert’s respective interpretations of the term “motion” in Damasecene’s definitions of the passion. Although they have a common understanding of the term within an Aristotelian context, they hold differing attitudes toward it: Albert denies that passion is motion, saying that it is quality left from motion, whereas Aquinas affirms the notion of passion as motion. In this paper I expound on the difficulties Albert has with the term and how Aquinas resolves them. I argue that Aquinas successfully addresses the Albert’s difficulties, thus establishing a foundation for a more refined understanding of human psychology in relation to ethical behaviour.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Logic of the Identity of Being and Goodness and a Moral Argument for Theism]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In section 1 of this paper, I consider the logical validity of four versions of Aquinas’ arguments to this conclusion that being and good are identical, as presented by Stump and Kretzmann. Subsequently, I formalize the arguments in order to make their validity logically explicit. In section 2, I show how the formal reality of the identity of being grounds moral arguments for theism. In section 3, I then consider the application of this formal reality, to a simplified contemporary “moral argument” for theism. I argue that Aquinas’ arguments for the identity of being and goodness should play a vital role in moral arguments for theism to militate against atheistic objections to them.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Theologie der Taufe bei Thomas von Aquin: “Das zur Gnade befähigende Prägemal”]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In einer zunehmend säkularisierten westlichen Welt stellt sich die pastorale Frage nach der Sinnhaftigkeit der Taufe von Kleinkindern. Das Bekenntnis der Eltern und Paten muss gleichsam für die Täuflinge garantieren. Im fortgeschrittenen Umbruch von der Volkskirche zur Bekenntniskirche erscheint dies herausfordernd. Soll den Kleinkindern die Taufe gespendet werden, wenn das Bekenntnis der Eltern unklar ist oder nur formell ausgesprochen erscheint? Die Tauftheologie des Thomas von Aquin hilft bei der Beantwortung dieser Frage. Die Taufe setzt nach dem Doctor Angelicus einerseits den Glauben voraus und kann andererseits als Prägemal zur Gnade des Glaubens befähigen. Das Prägemal verlangt gleichsam nach einer Hinführung zum Glauben, die Befähigung nach dem Vollzug.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Goodness of Creatures in Aquinas‘ Reading of the Wisdom Books]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This article explores Aquinas’ conception of the goodness of creatures in the light of his commentaries on wisdom literature. Leveraging the Index Thomisticus, relevant passages from Aquinas’ commentaries on wisdom books and their corresponding scriptural verses related to creation are identified. His non-exegetical works are also scrutinized for references to these verses. Through this examination, Aquinas emerges as affirming that God’s love encompasses all creatures, including the devil. Aquinas associates God with all that is good but also emphasizes the original goodness of demons and attributes the source of evil to the will of rational beings.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is God a Body? Isaiah, Divine Dissimilitude, and Scriptural Signification]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In light of recent biblical scholarship claiming that the God of the Hebrew Bible has a body, this article investigates how Aquinas reads Isaiah’s description of God in embodied, anthropomorphic terms in 6, 1 (I saw the Lord sitting on a throne high and lifted up, etc.) in tandem with the prophet’s denial that God is like any creature in 40, 18 (To whom have you likened God? Or what image will you make for Him?). We seek to show that, according to Aquinas, Is. 6, 1 teaches not that God has or is a body, but rather that He is not.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nobilior Modus Est: The Importance of Music in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This paper presents a reading of Aquinas’ treatment of the value of music in religious teaching and preaching about God that reinterprets his claim in ST II-II, q. 91, a.2 that language is of ‘a more noble kind’ than music. Through an understanding of Aquinas’ writings on ‘contemplation’ a more complex and thorough treatment of music can be outlined. Far from simply presenting an argument for the superiority of language over music for the purpose of gaining religious understanding, this paper argues that Aquinas’ wider literary corpus on the subject of contemplation provides both implicit and explicit support for the parallel value music and language.]]></description>
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