Light is one of the most ancient and significant metaphors adopted
by Christianity by which to understand the significance of Jesus
Christ. The Easter liturgy, for instance, is marked by beautiful
and powerful rituals proclaiming Christ as the light of the world
in his death and resurrection. That understanding developed over
subsequent centuries into a larger doctrine of illumination-how
Christians come to understand and know God through Christ the
Light. In this work, David Whidden takes up that theme in
contesting a standard paradigm of interpretation that asserts that
Aquinas eliminated the doctrine of illumination in his theology. In
Christ the Light, Whidden argues that illumination is a critical
systematic motif in Aquinas' theology, one that involves the nature
of truth, knowledge, and God; at the root, Aquinas' theology of
light, or illumination, is Christological, grounding human
knowledge of God and eschatological beatitude. This volume
establishes the theological network formed by the crucial motif of
light/illumination in Aquinas, from how theology operates to the
systematic, sacramental, and moral coordinates in Aquinas'
theology. Christ the Light thus provides a much needed and
illuminating retrieval of the one of the most important and
creative theologians in the western Christian tradition.
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