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The Godly Image - Christian Satisfaction in Aquinas (Paperback)
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The Godly Image - Christian Satisfaction in Aquinas (Paperback)
Series: Sacra Doctrina
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Christian satisfaction stands at the center of the Church's
teaching about salvation. Satisfaction pertains to studies about
Christ, redemption, the Sacraments, and pastoral practice. The
topic also enters into questions about God and the creature as well
as about the divine mercy and providence. Somewhat neglected in the
period after Vatican II, satisfaction now appears to scholars as
the forgotten key to entering deeply into the mystery of Christ and
his work. Seminarians especially will benefit from studying the
place satisfaction holds in Catholic life. Further, ecumenical work
requires a proper understanding of the place that satisfaction
holds in Christian theology. Various factors operative since the
sixteenth century have worked to displace satisfaction almost
entirely from reformed practice and theology. To address such
concerns, The Godly Image, has, over the past several decades and
more, done a great deal to put satisfaction within its proper
context of image-restoration. That is, to interpret satisfaction
within the context of the divine mercy and not the divine justice.
This unique contribution to satisfaction studies owes a great deal
to the achievement of Saint Thomas Aquinas. In this sense, the book
enacts a retrieval of the theology of the high classical period.
Like much of Aquinas's refined teaching, a proper understanding
requires appeal to the commentatorial tradition that follows him.
Interested students will find in this study the touchstones for
further studies of these authors. The Godly Image aims also to
distinguish the theology of Aquinas from that of the medieval
author with whom the notion of satisfaction remains mostly
identified, that is, Anselm of Canterbury. Although not a developed
focus of the book's contents, the attentive reader will recognize
that Aquinas treats Saint Anselm with a reverential reading, even
as the Common Doctor moves significantly away from interpretations
of satisfaction that suggest that an angry God exacts from his
innocent Son a painful substitutional penalty for a fallen human
race.
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