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Bound for Beatitude - A Thomistic Study in Eschatology and Ethics (Hardcover)
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Bound for Beatitude - A Thomistic Study in Eschatology and Ethics (Hardcover)
Series: Thomistic Ressourcement Series
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Bound for Beatitude is about St. Thomas Aquinas's theology of
beatitude and the journey thereto. Consequently, the work's topic
is the meaning and purpose of human life embedded in that of the
whole cosmos. This study is not an antiquarian exercise in the
thought of some sundry medieval thinker, but an exercise of
ressourcement in the philosophical and theological wisdom of one of
the most profound theologians of the Catholic Church, one whom the
Church has canonized, granted the title "Doctor of the Church," and
for a long time regarded as the common doctor. This exercise of
ressourcement takes its methodological cues from the common doctor;
hence, it is an integrated exercise of philosophical, dogmatic, and
moral theology. Its specific theological topic, the ultimate human
end, perfect happiness, beatitude, and the journey thereto-stands
at the very heart of St. Thomas's theology. Far from being passe,
his theology of beatitude is of urgent pertinence as the crisis of
humanity and of creation and the exile of God seems to approach its
apogee. By way of a presentation, interpretation, and defense of
Thomas Aquinas's doctrine of beatitude and the journey thereto,
Bound for Beatitude advances an argument based on four theses: (1)
The loss of a theology of beatitude has greatly impoverished
contemporary theology. In order to succeed and flourish, theology
must recover a sound teleological orientation. (2) In order to
recover a sound teleological orientation, theology must recover
metaphysics as its privileged instrument. (3) Thomas Aquinas
provides a still pertinent model for how theology might achieve
these goals in a metaphysically profound theology of beatitude and
the beatific vision. Finally, (4) Aquinas's rich and sophisticated
account of the virtues charts the journey to beatitude in a way
that still has analytic force and striking relevance in the early
twenty-first century.
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