The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas

753 Pages·2021·4.849 MB·English

by  Matthew Levering (editor), Marcus Plested (editor)

The Oxford Handbook of
T H E R E C E P T IO N
OF AQU I NA S

The Oxford Handbook of
THE
RECEPTION
OF AQUINAS
Edited by
MATTHEW LEVERING
and
MARCUS PLESTED
1
1
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Contents
List of Contributors ix
Preface: Contextualizing Our Handbook xv
Matthew Levering and Marcus Plested
Acknowledgements xxi
1. Saint Thomas and His Sources 1
Jean-Pierre Torrell, OP
PART I MEDIEVAL RECEPTIONS
2. Thirteenth-Century Engagements with Thomas Aquinas 23
Corey L. Barnes
3. Τhomas Aquinas’ Reception in Fourteenth-Century Byzantium 38
Ioannis Polemis
4. Duns Scotus and William of Ockham 53
Richard Cross
5. Fourteenth-Century Western Reception of Aquinas in
Meister Eckhart, Hervaeus Natalis, and Durandus of St-Pourçain 68
Isabel Iribarren
6. Fifteenth-Century Eastern Reception of Aquinas 81
Pantelis Golitsis
7. The Western Reception of Aquinas in the Fifteenth Century 93
Efrem Jindráček, OP
PART II REFORMATION AND
COUNTER-REFORMATION RECEPTIONS
8. Sixteenth-Century Reception of Aquinas by Luther
and Lutheran Reformers 105
David Luy
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9. Sixteenth-Century Reformed Reception of Aquinas 121
David S. Sytsma
10. Sixteenth-Century Reception of Aquinas by Cajetan 144
Cajetan Cuddy, OP
11. Sixteenth-Century Reception of Aquinas by the Council
of Trent and Its Main Authors 159
Romanus Cessario, OP
12. Aquinas and the Emergence of Moral Theology during
the Spanish Renaissance 173
David M. Lantigua
13. Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Reception of
Aquinas in the East 191
Klaus-Peter Todt
PART III BAROQUE RECEPTIONS
14. The Reception of Thomas Aquinas in Seventeenth-Century
Reformed Orthodoxy and Anglicanism 207
Carl R. Trueman
15. Seventeenth-Century Lutheran Reception of Aquinas 222
Benjamin T. G. Mayes
16. The Catholic Reception of Aquinas in the De auxiliis Controversy 255
Matthew T. Gaetano
17. Seventeenth-Century Catholic Reception Outside the De auxiliis
Controversy 280
Charles Robertson
PART IV MODERN RECEPTIONS
18. Eighteenth-Century Catholic Reception of Aquinas 295
Reginald M. Lynch, OP
19. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Greek Reception of Aquinas 313
Vassa Kontouma
20. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Russian
Reception of Aquinas 329
Kirill Karpov
contents vii
21. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Reformed, Anglican,
and Lutheran Reception of Aquinas 343
Steven J. Duby
22. Nineteenth-Century Catholic Reception of Aquinas 359
Thomas Marschler
PART V EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY
RECEPTIONS
23. The Reception of Thomas Aquinas by Neo-Scholastic
Philosophers in the First Half of the Twentieth Century 377
Bernard N. Schumacher
24. The Reception of Aquinas in Early Twentieth-Century
Catholic Neo-Scholastic and Historical Theologians 392
Roger W. Nutt
25. The Reception of Aquinas in Twentieth-Century
Transcendental Thomism 408
Stephen M. Fields, SJ
26. The Reception of Aquinas in Nouvelle Théologie 424
Adam G. Cooper
27. Twentieth-Century Orthodox Reception of Aquinas 442
Marcus Plested
28. The Reception of Aquinas in Kuyper’s Encyclopaedie der
heilige Godgeleerdheid 452
James Eglinton
29. Karl Barth’s Reception of Thomas Aquinas 468
Kenneth Oakes
PART VI LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY
RECEPTIONS
30. The Reception of Thomas Aquinas in Moral Theology
and Moral Philosophy in the Late Twentieth Century 485
Christopher Kaczor
31. The Reception of Aquinas in Postliberal, Grammatical,
and Historical Theology 501
Anna Bonta Moreland
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32. Late Twentieth-Century Reception of Aquinas in
Analytical Philosophy 515
John Haldane
PART VII CONTEMPORARY RECEPTIONS
OF AQUINAS: PHILOSOPHY
33. The Reception of Aquinas in the Philosophy of Nature and Science 539
Michael J. Dodds, OP
34. The Reception of Aquinas’ Ethics 554
Angela Knobel
35. Aquinas’ Reception in Contemporary Metaphysics 565
Gyula Klima
36. The Distinctive Unity of the Human Being in Aquinas 581
Therese Scarpelli Cory
37. The Contemporary Reception of Aquinas on the Natural
Knowledge of God 596
David VanDrunen
38. The Contemporary Reception of St Thomas on Law and Politics 612
Michael Pakaluk
PART VIII CONTEMPORARY
RECEPTIONS OF AQUINAS: THEOLOGY
39. God the Trinity 629
Gilles Emery, OP
40. Creation, Fall, and Providence 643
Rudi A. te Velde
41. Aquinas on Nature, Grace, and the Moral Life 658
Daria Spezzano
42. Jesus Christ 673
Simon Francis Gaine, OP
43. Receiving Aquinas’ Sacramental Theology Today 689
Bernhard Blankenhorn, OP
44. Reception of Thomas Aquinas in the Area of Eschatology 705
Paul O’Callaghan
Index 717
List of Contributors
Corey L. Barnes is Robert S. Danforth Associate Professor of Religion in the Medieval
Mediterranean World at Oberlin College. His research focuses on medieval scholastic
thought concentrating on discussions of causality, providence, analogical predication,
and Christology. He is the author of Christ’s Two Wills in Scholastic Thought (Pontifical
Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2012).
Bernhard Blankenhorn, OP is aggregate Professor of Theology at the Pontifical University
of St Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome. He has published The Mystery of Union
with God: Dionysian Mysticism in Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas (Catholic
University of America Press, 2015).
Romanus Cessario, OP holds a chair of theology at Ave Maria University. He is an
ordinary fellow of the Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas. He is the author of
many books and articles including (with Cajetan Cuddy, OP) Thomas and the Thomists:
The Achievement of Thomas Aquinas and His Interpreters (Fortress Press, 2017).
Adam G. Cooper is Associate Professor of Theology and History at Catholic Theological
College, Melbourne. He has published books and articles on patristics, deification, and
the theology of the body.
Therese Scarpelli Cory is John and Jean Oesterle Associate Professor of Thomistic Studies
at the University of Notre Dame and an ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of
Saint Thomas Aquinas. She specializes in medieval theories of mind and personhood. She
is the author of Aquinas on Human Self-Knowledge (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Richard Cross is John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre
Dame. He specializes in medieval philosophy and theology, with a particular focus on
Duns Scotus. He also works on philosophy and theology in the Patristic and Reformation
periods, and on the history and philosophy of disability. He is the author of The Metaphysics
of the Incarnation: Thomas Aquinas to Duns Scotus (Oxford University Press, 2002), Duns
Scotus’s Theory of Cognition (Oxford University Press, 2014), and Communicatio
Idiomatum: Reformation Christological Debates (Oxford University Press, 2019).
Cajetan Cuddy, OP is Assistant Professor of Theology at the Dominican House of
Studies in Washington, DC. He is the co-author (with Romanus Cessario, OP) of
Thomas and the Thomists: The Achievement of Thomas Aquinas and His Interpreters;
Fortress Press, 2017).
Michael J. Dodds, OP is Professor of Philosophy and Theology at the Dominican
School of Philosophy and Theology, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. His