<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

Pubblicato online: 08 giu 2020

Pagine: 33 - 46

Ricevuto: 29 apr 2020

Accettato: 25 mag 2020

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

Parole chiave
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

Pubblicato online: 08 giu 2020

Pagine: 33 - 46

Ricevuto: 29 apr 2020

Accettato: 25 mag 2020

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

Parole chiaveThomistic anthropology, analogy

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

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

Parole chiave
Thomistic anthropology, analogy