The Suffering Servant in Aquinas

The Suffering Servant in Aquinas
Author: Daniel Waldow
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2024-09-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0813238889

The "Suffering Servant" text of Isaiah 53 is a perennial topic of debate within Jewish and Christian biblical theology. Is the Suffering Servant an individual, a group, or both? How and why did he suffer? What role did God play in his suffering? How is his suffering related to human salvation? The answers to these questions often divide Jewish and Christian readers of Scripture as well as Christians across different denominations. In particular, Isaiah 53 tends to inform different Christian accounts of the origin, nature, and saving value of Christ's Passion. The Suffering Servant in Aquinas contributes to the debate on the meaning of Isaiah 53 and its bearing upon the Passion of Christ by examining how St. Thomas Aquinas engaged this biblical text. This book examines every explicit reference to Isaiah 53 that Aquinas makes in his biblical commentaries, Commentary on the Sentences, Summa Theologiae, and Opuscula. It analyzes how and why Aquinas interprets Isaiah 53 in the ways that he does. It focuses especially upon how Aquinas draws upon Isaiah 53 to shed light on the saving mystery of Christ's Passion. Readers will see how Aquinas articulates the relationship between God's will and Christ's suffering, the diverse forms of Christ's pain, the degree to which the Passion can be considered a "punishment," and the saving functions of the Passion as example, merit, satisfaction, and sacrifice. This book makes an original contribution to the growing field of Biblical Thomism. It examines Aquinas's exegetical methods as well as the role of Scripture within his speculative theology. And it properly contextualizes Aquinas's exegesis by considering the differences between his Latin version of Isaiah 53 and contemporary renderings of Hebrew and Greek versions. Readers will see that Aquinas's Christological interpretations of Isaiah 53 are both exegetically intriguing and theologically rich.

On Job

On Job
Author: Gustavo GutiŽrrez
Publisher: Orbis Books
Total Pages: 259
Release: 1987
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1608331245

One of this century's most eminent theologians addresses the eternal questions of the relationship of good and evil, linking the story of Job to the lives of the poor and oppressed of our world.

On the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering

On the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering
Author: Pope John Paul II
Publisher:
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Suffering
ISBN: 9780819854582

Published on February 11, 1984, Salvifici Doloris addresses the question of why God allows suffering. This 30th anniversary edition includes the complete text of the letter plus commentary by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD, a priest and physician trained in geriatrics with an expertise in palliative care. Acknowledgments of recent episodes of violence bring the papal document into a modern context. Insightful questions suited for individual or group use, applicable prayers, and ideas for meaningful action invite readers to personally respond to the mystery of suffering.

The Routledge Guidebook to Aquinas' Summa Theologiae

The Routledge Guidebook to Aquinas' Summa Theologiae
Author: Jason T Eberl
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2015-11-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317542878

The Routledge Guidebook to Aquinas' Summa Theologiae introduces readers to a work which represents the pinnacle of medieval Western scholarship and which has inspired numerous commentaries, imitators, and opposing views. Outlining the main arguments Aquinas utilizes to support his conclusions on various philosophical and theological questions, this clear and comprehensive guide explores: the historical context in which Aquinas wrote a critical discussion of the topics outlined in the text including theology, metaphysics, epistemology, psychology, ethics, and political theory the ongoing influence of the Summa Theologiae in modern philosophy and theology. Offering a close reading of the original work, this guidebook highlights the central themes of Aquinas’ masterwork and is an essential read for anyone seeking an understanding of this highly influential work in the history of philosophy.

Job and the Mystery of Suffering

Job and the Mystery of Suffering
Author: Richard Rohr
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1996
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 9780852443088

Richard Rohr, internationally known retreat leader, speaker and writer, plumbs the depths of the Job's story and its relevance for us today. Rohr strips Christian faith down to the essentials, beyond glib answers and a "hand-me-down" experience of God, and points the way to true knowing. In this invigorating exploration, the tension between suffering and faith becomes a powerful means to an authentic, open connection with the divine.

Aquinas's Eschatological Ethics and the Virtue of Temperance

Aquinas's Eschatological Ethics and the Virtue of Temperance
Author: Matthew Levering
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2019-11-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0268106355

In Aquinas’s Eschatological Ethics and the Virtue of Temperance, Matthew Levering argues that Catholic ethics make sense only in light of the biblical worldview that Jesus has inaugurated the kingdom of God by pouring out his spirit. Jesus has made it possible for us to know and obey God’s law for human flourishing as individuals and communities. He has reoriented our lives toward the goal of beatific communion with him in charity, which affects the exercise of the moral virtues that pertain to human flourishing. Without the context of the inaugurated kingdom, Catholic ethics as traditionally conceived will seem like an effort to find a middle ground between legalistic rigorism and relativistic laxism, which is especially the case with the virtue of temperance, the focus of Levering’s book. After an opening chapter on the eschatological/biblical character of Catholic ethics, the ensuing chapters engage Aquinas’s theology of temperance in the Summa theologiae, which identifies and examines a number of virtues associated with temperance. Levering demonstrates that the theology of temperance is profoundly biblical, and that Aquinas’s theology of temperance relies for its intelligibility upon Christ’s inauguration of the kingdom of God as the graced fulfillment of our created nature. The book develops new vistas for scholars and students interested in moral theology.

Catholic Q&A

Catholic Q&A
Author: Father Ray Ryland
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
Total Pages: 1130
Release: 2016-08-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1681920964

This is a compilation of Fr. Ryland's column that appeared from 2004 through 2014 in The Catholic Answer magazine, published by Our Sunday Visitor, Huntington, IN 46750. The 676 questions came from Catholics, Protestants, and non-Christians who wanted a better understanding of the Catholic faith. Access to particular topics is provided via a thorough back-of-the-book index, as well as through theme links throughout the book. Touch a topic in the index or a theme link, view the question and Fr. Ryland's wise answer, and you are equipped to better understand and to share the fullness of faith in Jesus Christ as Lord. Think of this book as one more instrument in the "new evangelization". Online resources include full search capability and updates of the index. "Nihil Obstat" and "Imprimatur" granted by the Diocese of Steubenville, Ohio.

Does God Suffer?

Does God Suffer?
Author: Thomas Gerard Weinandy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2000
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

The author of this book challenges the contemporary view of God and suffering. Calling upon scripture, and the philosophical and theological tradition of the Fathers and Aquinas, he advocates the incarnational truth that the Son of God actually does experience human living, including suffering.

The Reconciling Wisdom of God

The Reconciling Wisdom of God
Author: Adam J. Johnson
Publisher: Lexham Press
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2016-08-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1577997263

In The Reconciling Wisdom of God: Reframing the Doctrine of the Atonement, Adam Johnson, already a leading scholar of the atonement, considers God’s redemptive work in Christ through the atonement as an act of God’s infinite wisdom. In making this crucial turn, Johnson is able to speak to proponents of the various atonement theories and move the discussion forward in a new direction, grounded in the truth of God’s infinite wisdom. Genuinely reframing the debate around the atonement, The Reconciling Wisdom of God is a must-read for students of the atonement.