<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Employing a work of modern conceptual art, a manipulated photograph entitled ‘The Missing Person’, the author studies Thomas Aquinas on the concept of human beings as image of (the Triune) God. Typical for Aquinas’ approach is the theocentric focus of his Christian anthropology. The threefold (nature, grace, glory) ‘image of God’, a central and dynamic concept in Aquinas’ <italic>Summa Theologiae</italic>, is both descriptive and prescriptive in nature, corresponding to an account of both analogical naming of the divine ánd living according to the vocation to become more and more image of the Triune God.</p></abstract>

Employing a work of modern conceptual art, a manipulated photograph entitled ‘The Missing Person’, the author studies Thomas Aquinas on the concept of human beings as image of (the Triune) God. Typical for Aquinas’ approach is the theocentric focus of his Christian anthropology. The threefold (nature, grace, glory) ‘image of God’, a central and dynamic concept in Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae, is both descriptive and prescriptive in nature, corresponding to an account of both analogical naming of the divine ánd living according to the vocation to become more and more image of the Triune God.

Thomas Aquinas on Human Beings as Image of God

European Journal for the Study of Thomas Aquinas

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Employing a work of modern conceptual art, a manipulated photograph entitled ‘The Missing Person’, the author studies Thomas Aquinas on the concept of human...

Thomas Aquinas on Human Beings as Image of God

Publié en ligne: 08 juin 2020

Pages: 33 - 46

Reçu: 29 avr. 2020

Accepté: 25 mai 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ejsta-2020-0003

Mots clés
Thomistic anthropology, analogy

© 2020 Henk J.M. Schoot, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Thomas Aquinas on Human Beings as Image of God

Publié en ligne: 08 juin 2020

Pages: 33 - 46

Reçu: 29 avr. 2020

Accepté: 25 mai 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ejsta-2020-0003

Mots clésThomistic anthropology, analogy

© 2020 Henk J.M. Schoot, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
Thomistic anthropology, analogy