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Thomas Aquinas on Human Beings as Image of God Cover
Open Access
|Jun 2020

Abstract

Employing a work of modern conceptual art, a manipulated photograph entitled ‘The Missing Person’, the author studies Thomas Aquinas on the concept of human beings as image of (the Triune) God. Typical for Aquinas’ approach is the theocentric focus of his Christian anthropology. The threefold (nature, grace, glory) ‘image of God’, a central and dynamic concept in Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae, is both descriptive and prescriptive in nature, corresponding to an account of both analogical naming of the divine ánd living according to the vocation to become more and more image of the Triune God.

Language: English
Page range: 33 - 46
Submitted on: Apr 29, 2020
Accepted on: May 25, 2020
Published on: Jun 8, 2020
Published by: Thomas Institute of Utrecht
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2020 Henk J.M. Schoot, published by Thomas Institute of Utrecht
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