Wie die Argumente zusammenhaengen
Beginne mit Sein, Akt, Potenz, Kausalitaet und Teilhabe. Von dort fuehren die Prinzipien zu Anthropologie, Ethik, Gesetz, Gnade, Christologie und Sakramentenlehre.
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Zentrale Argumente des Thomas
Ein Studienpfad zu den wichtigsten Argumenten und Lehren des Thomas, jeweils mit den Werken verbunden, in denen das Argument besonders sichtbar wird.
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Natural theology
The Five Ways for God's existence
Five concise demonstrations from motion, efficient causality, contingency, degrees of perfection, and final order.
Dieses Argument studierenMetaphysics
Act and potency
Change is intelligible because a being can possess a real capacity that is brought into actuality.
Dieses Argument studierenMetaphysics
Essence and existence
In creatures, what a thing is and that it exists are distinct; in God they are identical.
Dieses Argument studierenDivine attributes
God as Pure Act
God has no unrealized potency, and so is not changeable, composite, dependent, or perfectible.
Dieses Argument studierenDivine attributes
Divine simplicity
God is not composed of parts, matter and form, essence and existence, substance and accident, or genus and difference.
Dieses Argument studierenTheological language
Analogy of being and language
Names such as good, wise, and being apply to God and creatures neither univocally nor merely equivocally, but analogically.
Dieses Argument studierenMetaphysics
Participation metaphysics
Creatures possess being, goodness, truth, and perfection by participation, while God possesses them essentially.
Dieses Argument studierenNatural philosophy
Final causality and teleology
Natural powers and actions are intelligible because they are ordered toward ends.
Dieses Argument studierenMoral theology
Natural law
Natural law is the rational creature's participation in eternal law, ordered by the first principle that good is to be pursued and evil avoided.
Dieses Argument studierenMoral theology
Virtue ethics and beatitude
Human fulfillment lies in happiness, ultimately the vision of God, and the virtues order powers toward that end.
Dieses Argument studierenMethod
Faith and reason
Reason can know some truths about God, while revelation gives truths beyond reason; genuine truth cannot contradict genuine truth.
Dieses Argument studierenAnthropology
The soul as form of the body
The human person is one substance composed of body and rational soul; the soul is subsistent but naturally united to the body.
Dieses Argument studierenAnthropology
Intellect and knowledge
Human knowledge begins in sense experience, while the intellect abstracts universal intelligible forms from particulars.
Dieses Argument studierenTheology and action
Free will and divine providence
God governs all things as universal cause, while human beings act freely as real secondary causes.
Dieses Argument studierenTheological anthropology
Grace and nature
Grace heals and elevates nature rather than destroying it, raising the person toward supernatural beatitude.
Dieses Argument studierenDogmatic theology
Christology
Christ is one divine person with two natures, divine and human, and the Incarnation is fitting for human salvation.
Dieses Argument studierenDogmatic theology
Sacramental theology
Sacraments are instrumental causes of grace, with the Eucharist receiving special treatment through transubstantiation.
Dieses Argument studierenMoral and political theology
Just war theory
War can be just only under conditions such as legitimate authority, just cause, and right intention.
Dieses Argument studierenPolitical theology
Political authority and the common good
Political life is natural to human beings, and law and authority should be ordered to the common good.
Dieses Argument studierenMoral and political theology
Property and economic justice
Private property is lawful and useful, but its use remains ordered to the common good and the needs of others.
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