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oapen-20.500.12657-616092024-03-27T14:14:35Z Chapter 6 Thomist Classical Theism De Haan, Daniel Philosophy of religion; nature & existence of God thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general::QRAB Philosophy of religion thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general::QRAB Philosophy of religion::QRAB1 Nature and existence of God and of the Divine Defenders and critics of divine simplicity rightly look to Thomas Aquinas’s important contributions to this pillar of classical theism (=CT). But few contemporary discussions notice the way Aquinas employs pseudo-Dionysius’s triplex via as a principled heuristic that governs and organizes his theological enquiries concerning divine simplicity. This oversight has led to misinterpretations of Aquinas’s doctrine of divine simplicity (=DDS), which must be situated within his triplex via theology (=TVT). In this chapter I show that, like Aquinas’s DDS, the value of Thomist TVT extends beyond historical exegesis and provides exponents of CT with a fertile alternative to the more well-known Anselmian inspired heuristic of perfect being theology (=PBT). In the first part I introduce two problems for CT that cannot be resolved by PBT and Thomistic accounts of DDS that omit Aquinas’s TVT. In the second part, I explain what Thomistic TVT is and why its integrated threefold way of understanding God via causality, negation, and super-eminence can overcome these problems for CT. 2023-03-06T10:33:12Z 2023-03-06T10:33:12Z 2023 chapter 9781032060644 9781032064093 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61609 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781003202172_10.4324_9781003202172-8.pdf Taylor & Francis Classical Theism Routledge 10.4324/9781003202172-8 10.4324/9781003202172-8 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb fa0e6f76-76c3-46e9-b1d0-ea313a8d642d d09f4ed8-30ae-4da8-85b7-f3af555a6f33 9781032060644 9781032064093 Routledge 23 Templeton World Charity Foundation Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc. open access
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Defenders and critics of divine simplicity rightly look to Thomas Aquinas’s important contributions to this pillar of classical theism (=CT). But few contemporary discussions notice the way Aquinas employs pseudo-Dionysius’s triplex via as a principled heuristic that governs and organizes his theological enquiries concerning divine simplicity. This oversight has led to misinterpretations of Aquinas’s doctrine of divine simplicity (=DDS), which must be situated within his triplex via theology (=TVT). In this chapter I show that, like Aquinas’s DDS, the value of Thomist TVT extends beyond historical exegesis and provides exponents of CT with a fertile alternative to the more well-known Anselmian inspired heuristic of perfect being theology (=PBT). In the first part I introduce two problems for CT that cannot be resolved by PBT and Thomistic accounts of DDS that omit Aquinas’s TVT. In the second part, I explain what Thomistic TVT is and why its integrated threefold way of understanding God via causality, negation, and super-eminence can overcome these problems for CT.
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