Seeing God. Thomas Aquinas on Divine Presence in the World

Virtues in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas

RECENT YEARS have seen the publication of studies advocating an orientation for Christian ethics based upon virtue. Stanley Hauerwas, Alasdair Maclntyre, Paul J. Wadell, Jean Porter, Daniel Mark Nelson, and others are associated with this approach. To many who had known and experienced Roman Catholic moral theology in the decades before Vatican II, this invitation to a restoration of virtue eth...

On God and Mann: a View of Divine Simplicity

One of the most difficult and perplexing tenets of classical theism is the doctrine of divine simplicity. Broadly put, this is generally understood to be the thesis that God is altogether without any proper parts, composition, or metaphysical complexity whatsoever. For a good deal more than a millennium, veritable armies ofphilosophical theologians Jewish, Christian and Islamic proclaimed the t...

St. Thomas Aquinas: Economics of the Just Society

From the Ultimate God to the Virtual God: Post- Ontotheological Perspectives on the Divine in Heidegger, Badiou, and Meillassoux

The Heideggerian account of the ontotheological constitution of Western metaphysics has been extremely influential for contemporary philosophy of religion and for philosophical perspectives on theology and the divine. This paper introduces and contrasts two central strategies for approaching the question of the divine in a nonor post-ontotheological manner. The first and more established approa...

seeing god

t his paper discusses firstly the logical possibility of seeing god and secondly discusses the occurrence of that in this world. the reasons for and against the possibility and also the occurrence of this seeing are studied in details and criticized. the author finally proposed his arguments for rejecting the possibility and occurrence of seeing god.