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To Stir a Restless Heart - Thomas Aquinas and Henri de Lubac on Nature, Grace, and the Desire for God (Paperback)
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To Stir a Restless Heart - Thomas Aquinas and Henri de Lubac on Nature, Grace, and the Desire for God (Paperback)
Series: Thomistic Ressourcement Series
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To Stir a Restless Heart tells for the first time the story of how
Thomas Aquinas conversed with his contemporaries about the dynamics
of human nature's longing for God, and documents how he
deliberately utilized Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin sources to
develop a version of Aristotelian natural desire that was uniquely
Augustinian: natural desire seeks the complete fulfillment of human
nature "insofar as is possible," and so comes to rest in the
highest end that God offers to it. Depending on whether God offers
the free gift of grace to humanity, one and the same natural desire
can come to rest in knowing God through creatures or seeing God
directly.Tracing the reception of Aquinas in the centuries that
follow, Jacob Wood argues that Aquinas's student from among the
Augustinian Hermits, Giles of Rome, consciously transformed
Aquinas's understanding of human nature. By insisting that every
nature has a positive aptitude for one, specific end, Giles tied
our natural desire positively and directly to the vision of God,
setting up a 700-year challenge among the Augustinian Hermits to
explain the integrity of a nature with a supernatural end, as well
as the gratuity of the grace which perfects it. Showing how de
Lubac's early discovery of that tradition served as a principal
source for his "natural desire for a supernatural end," To Stir a
Restless Heart argues that many recent criticisms of de Lubac's
theological anthropology find ready answers among the Augustinian
Hermits, but that a renewed understanding of Aquinas's
Augustinianism offers a more complete way forward: it preserves
Aristotle's commitment to the integrity of human nature, de Lubac's
commitment to the transcendence of human perfection, and
Augustine's insistence on the priority and gratuity of divine grace
in the work of redemption.
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