Thomas Aquinas on Non-Theological Faith
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21363386 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catherine Peters (0000-0003-4406-4535, Loyola Marymount University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 478-491 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Blackfriars (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-4289 • E-ISSN: 1741-2005 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/nbf.2024.5 |
| OpenAlex | W4392286354 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
The majority of studies on ‘faith’ ( fides ) in the thought of Thomas Aquinas consider it in a religious or theological context: fides as the theological virtue by which one assents to the truths of divine revelation. The focus on theological faith is appropriate, given its central importance as a theological virtue, but this is not the only sense of fides that Thomas identifies. The present study investigates two non-theological senses formulated in his commentary on the De Trinitate of Boethius: first, fides as the proximate cause of assenting to principles within a given science (‘epistemic faith’) and, second, fides as an indispensable element of society (‘societal faith’). These senses have been largely overlooked in secondary literature but, I argue, might help to dispel mischaracterizations of faith as fundamentally unreasonable
Faith · Theology · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Theology and Philosophy of Evil
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |