Human Will and Divine Grace - Damascene’s Teaching on Theosis and its Echo in Aquinas

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Human Will and Divine Grace - Damascene’s Teaching on Theosis and its Echo in Aquinas

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

St. John of Damascus is one of the most frequently cited authors in Aquinas’ Summa theologiae. In Damascene’s writings we find a well developed if somewhat un-systematic teaching on deification which in turn finds its echo in the works of the Angelic Doctor. John touches upon this topic while writing about the Orthodox Faith, defending the Holy Images or arguing against the heresies. Man participates in God (to a certain degree) firstly because he is a created being and secondly because he is a rational being – according to John this is the meaning of man being created in the Image of God. He also recognizes further ‘degrees’ of deification, where both human free will – and virtues which are ‘fruit’ of the free will and attaining them means attaining the Likeness of God – as well as the Grace of God (and its operation through the Sacraments) come to play according to John and without both the free consent of man and divine grace poured onto the same theosis would be unattainable after the Fall. The aim of this article will be to unravel Damascene’s understanding of the relation between the human will and divine grace in the process of deification or attaining the likeness of God and furthermore to look how this notion of ‘likeness’ as expression of the image and its perfection by virtue (ST I, q. 93, a. 9) was received and developed by Aquinas.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Human Will and Divine Grace - Damascene’s Teaching on Theosis and its Echo in Aquinas

Popis výsledku anglicky

St. John of Damascus is one of the most frequently cited authors in Aquinas’ Summa theologiae. In Damascene’s writings we find a well developed if somewhat un-systematic teaching on deification which in turn finds its echo in the works of the Angelic Doctor. John touches upon this topic while writing about the Orthodox Faith, defending the Holy Images or arguing against the heresies. Man participates in God (to a certain degree) firstly because he is a created being and secondly because he is a rational being – according to John this is the meaning of man being created in the Image of God. He also recognizes further ‘degrees’ of deification, where both human free will – and virtues which are ‘fruit’ of the free will and attaining them means attaining the Likeness of God – as well as the Grace of God (and its operation through the Sacraments) come to play according to John and without both the free consent of man and divine grace poured onto the same theosis would be unattainable after the Fall. The aim of this article will be to unravel Damascene’s understanding of the relation between the human will and divine grace in the process of deification or attaining the likeness of God and furthermore to look how this notion of ‘likeness’ as expression of the image and its perfection by virtue (ST I, q. 93, a. 9) was received and developed by Aquinas.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60303 - Theology

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Studia Patristica

ISBN

978-90-429-4167-0

Počet stran výsledku

11

Strana od-do

269-279

Počet stran knihy

279

Název nakladatele

Peeters Publishers

Místo vydání

Leuven

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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