Thomas Aquinas on the Good, Moral Life, and Happiness
Selected Essays
By (author) R. te Velde
The essays collected in this volume deal with themes that are central to Aquinas’s practical philosophy of human virtue and happiness. They focus on the anthropological-theological presuppositions of his moral thought, such as good and evil, human freedom as rooted in the transcendental openness of the soul, practical reason and virtue, and, as recurring theme, the duality of nature and grace in accounting for human morality in the light of the Christian faith. Taken together, the essays present a nuanced and compelling picture of human agency, endowed with reason and free will, supported by God’s grace, and directed to final happiness through a life of virtue. The book argues for the subtle balance in Aquinas between the aspect of the moral ‘autonomy’ of reason on the one hand and the intimate presence of grace on the other, with its promise of a renewal of the virtuous life beyond the humanly possible.
- By (author) R. te Velde
Other Titles in this Series
The Three Rings
Textual Studies in the Historical Trialogue of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Volume 11
The Enduring Significance of Thomas Aquinas
Essays in Honor of Henk Schoot and Rudi te Velde
Volume 21
Initiation and Mystagogy in Thomas Aquinas
Scriptural, Systematic, Sacramental and Moral, and Pastoral Perspectives
Volume 19
Thomas Aquinas on the Beatitudes
Reading Matthew, Disputing Grace and Virtue, Preaching Happiness
Volume 18
Divine Transcendence and Immanence in the Work of Thomas Aquinas
A Collection of Studies presented at the Third Conference of the Thomas Instituut te Utrecht, December 15-17, 2005
Volume 13
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