Description

• Title:
  St. Thomas’ Proof for the Lord of Lords from the Cause of Causes
• Creator:
  Peters, Catherine
• Description:
  n this study I examine the argument for the existence of God from finality formulated by St. Thomas Aquinas in the prologue to his commentary Super Evangelium Sancti Ioannis. Of particular interest is accounting for his characterization of this argument as the via efficacissima. I suggest two reasons for this appellation: first, philosophically, because this demonstrates the existence of God from the cause of causes and thus supplies intelligibility and explanation even for the via manifestior of efficient causality. Second, theologically, because its conclusion imparts an understanding of God as the Lord of Lords, by whose Divine Providence the world is ordered and governed. In this way, then, Thomas philosophically begins to explicate the theological implications of the Verbum of St. John’s Gospel.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2016 Biblica et Patristica Thoruniensia
• Date:
  2016.02.26
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Biblica et Patristica Thoruniensia; Vol. 8 No. 3 (2015): Biblical Thomism I; 81-94;
  Biblica et Patristica Thoruniensia; Tom 8 Nr 3 (2015): Biblical Thomism I; 81-94;
  2450-7059;
  1689-5150
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/BPTh/article/view/BPTh.2015.019/7845
• Subject:
  Thomas Aquinas;
  Gospel of John;
  Medieval Commentaries;
  Scriptural Exegesis;
  Final Causality;
  Teleology;
  Divine Providence
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/BPTh/article/view/BPTh.2015.019
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text