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Chapter 6 Thomist Classical Theism : Divine Simplicity within Aquinas' Triplex Via Theology

Author
De Haan, Daniel
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[Place of publication not identified] : Taylor & Francis, 2023.
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1 electronic resource (23 pages)
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English
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Summary
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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ISBN
9781003202172 (8)
9781032060644
9781032064093
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OAPEN Library.
Funding Information
Templeton World Charity Foundation
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Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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