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“Gregory Rocca’s book is a uniquely valuable contribution to the literature of Thomism. It is at present the most complete and careful coverage we have of St. Thomas’s position on how we can speak intelligibly, philosophically, about God. . . . The author has the balance between positive and negative theology in St. Thomas exactly right. . . . In a very rich and eloquent conclusion the author sums up what he considers the unique contribution of St. Thomas: namely, his carefully balanced interweaving of positive and negative theology that reveals ‘the tensioned structure of any truth about God’ (a beautifully terse and insightful phrase!).”―The Thomist “This is an exceptional achievement of comprehension and depth in elucidating and explaining positions, principles, and rationales of Aquinas in unfolding contexts. No staid effort to merely portray the doctrines of a great thinker of the past, it is rather a truly creative exploration that reveals how Aquinas’ insights might assist an ordered integration of truths about the divine nature within differing speculative traditions.”―Review of Metaphysics “In Gregory Rocca’s remarkable book . . . readers will find an account of Aquinas’ theological epistemology that fully locates it within his overall theological enterprise and provides the most comprehensive analysis of this aspect of the Angelic Doctor’s thought currently available. I know of no comparable work that demonstrates such a mastery of Aquinas’ writings and of the relevant secondary literature in this area.”―From the Foreword by J. Augustine Di Noia, O.P., Under-secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Gregory P. Rocca was recently professor of philosophy and theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.
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Condition: New. KlappentextGregory Rocca s book is a uniquely valuable contribution to the literature of Thomism. It is at present the most complete and careful coverage we have of St. Thomas s position on how we can speak intelligibly, philosophically,. Seller Inventory # 898788425
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - How can the Church speak of the God who transcends all thought and speech This book is a comprehensive retrieval of Thomas Aquinas's theological epistemology of the divine names, which is his profound contribution to that perennial question. His theology of the divine names is a rich and complex tapestry that weaves together the twin themes of negative and positive theology. Tempering any extreme agnosticism, Aquinas sets out a multi-layered negative theology respectful of God's incomprehensibility, while he also proposes a view of theological analogy that places it at the heart of his positive theology. Finally, he grounds his epistemology in the fundamental theological truth that God is the infinitely perfect and self-subsistence Creator.Gregory Rocca's nuanced discussion prevents Aquinas's thought from being capsulised in familiar slogans and is an antidote to unilateralist or monochrome views about God-talk. Rocca laces Aquinas's negative and positive theology together, because only that intertwining can do justice to the mystery of God. This study finds that, contrary to the views of some, Aquinas's analogy is more a matter of judgement and truth than of concept and meaning; despite his own presuppositions, Aquinas bases his theological analogy more on the insights of faith than those of reason.Aquinas's theology of the divine names encourages contemporary dialogue to keep the tensioned truth of God in view and to remember that only a fruitful interplay of positive and negative theology can do justice to the Elusive One who evades our linguistic capture and yet desires to be acknowledged and worshipped as Creator and Sustainer. The book will prove helpful to specialists in Aquinas and to others who are interested in the God-talk dialogue and can profit from an in-depth retrieval of Aquinas. Seller Inventory # 9780813215747
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