AQUINAS ON DOCTRINE

A Critical Introduction

Edited by

Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Cap

Daniel A. Keating

and

John P. Yocum

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ISBN 0 567 08411 6 (Paperback)

To the Angels

Who long to peer into the Sacred Mysteries

(1 Peter 1:12)

Contents

The Contributors

Foreword by Fergus Kerr

Preface

Abbreviations

1. Sacred Scripture and Sacred Doctrine in Saint Thomas Aquinas
Christopher T. Baglow

2. Act of Creation with its Theological Consequences
David B. Burrell

3. The Doctrine of the Trinity in St Thomas Aquinas
Gilles Emery

4. Aquinas: God IS Man: The Marvel of the Incarnation
Thomas G. Weinandy

5. The Teaching of Thomas Aquinas on the Mysteries of the Life of Christ
Michael J. Dodds

6. Aquinas on Christian Salvation
Romanus Cessario

7. Justification, Sanctification and Divinization in Thomas Aquinas
Daniel A. Keating

8. Sacraments in Aquinas
John P. Yocum

9. Aquinas on the Liturgy of the Eucharist
Matthew Levering

10. Thomas on the Church: Reflections on a Sermon
Herwi Rikhof

11. The Eschatology of St Thomas Aquinas
Matthew L. Lamb

12. The Mariology of St Thomas
Aidan Nichols

Select Bibliography

Index of Subjects

The Contributors

Christopher T. Baglow Our Lady of Holy Cross College, New Orleans

David B. Burrell University of Notre Dame

Romanus Cessario St John’s Seminary, Brighton, Massachusetts

Michael J. Dodds Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley

Gilles Emery University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Daniel A. Keating Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit

Fergus Kerr Blackfriars, Oxford, and the University of Edinburgh

Matthew L. Lamb Boston College

Matthew Levering Ave Maria College, Ypsilanti

Aidan Nichols Blackfriars, Cambridge

Herwi Rikhof Thomas Instituut, Utrecht

Thomas G. Weinandy Greyfriars, Oxford

John P. Yocum Greyfriars, Oxford

Foreword

Fergus Kerr

In the nearly forty years since the end of the Second Vatican Council, Pope John Paul II notes, the study of the work of Saint Thomas Aquinas has been neglected in many Catholic institutions (Fides et Ratio §61).

In this encyclical, it is true, the Pope has Aquinas’ philosophy principally in mind, seeing this neglect in the context of a widespread lack of trust in reason in a good deal of modern philosophy. This distrust of reason, he observes, ‘with both surprise and sorrow’, is shared by ‘not a few [Catholic] theologians’.

As the Pope has already noted, the ‘more distinguished’ of the theologians ...