Dust Bound for Heaven
Explorations in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas
Published on 1. October 2012
396 pages
978-1-4674-3672-4 (ISBN)
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In Dust Bound for Heaven Reinhard Hutter shows how Thomas Aquinas's view of the human being as dust bound for heaven weaves together elements of two questions without fusion or reduction. Does humanity still have an insatiable thirst for God that sends each person on an irrepressible religious quest that only the vision of God can quench? Or must the human being, living after the fall, become a "e;new creation"e; in order to be readied for heaven?Hutter also applies Thomas's anthropology to a host of pressing contemporary concerns, including the modern crisis of faith and reason, political theology, the relationship between divine grace and human freedom, and many more. The concluding chapter explores the Christological center of Thomas's theology.
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Reinhard Hütter is professor of Christian theology at Duke Divinity School. His other books include Reason and the Reasons of Faith (with Paul J. Griffiths) and Ressourcement Thomism: Sacred Doctrine, the Sacraments, and the Moral Life.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. By Way of an Introduction: Thomas Aquinas and Us
- or, "Waiting for Thomas"
- I. Ressourcement in Thomas Aquinas
- II. How a Ressourcement in Thomas Differs from a Revival of Aquinas Scholarship
- III. The Course the Explorations Take
- or, Dust Bound For Heaven
- IV. An Invitation to Further Explorations
- Prelude - Faith and Reason
- 2. "Is There a Cure for Reason's Presumption and Despair?" - Why Thomas Matters Today
- I. The Directedness of Reason and the Crisis of Metaphysics - Why It Matters Theologically
- II. Reason, Faith, and the Centrality of Judgment
- III. Thomas Aquinas on the Directedness of Reasoning
- IV. Redeemed Judgment
- The Gaze of Faith and the Wisdom of the Cross - With Thomas beyond Thomas
- V. The Metaphysics of Creation in the Conflict of Judgments
- Dust Bound for Heaven - Contemplating Human Nature and Destiny
- A. Human Nature Wounded but Not Destroyed - The Passions, the Common Good, and the Natural Love of God under the Condition of Sin
- 3. "Body Politics beyond Angelism and Animalism" - The Human Passions and Their Irreducible Spiritual Dimension
- I. The Two Horns of the Modern Anthropological Dilemma: Angelism vs. Animalism
- II. The Integrity of Human Nature According to Thomas and the Centrality of the Passions
- III. Conclusion: Moving Beyond the Modern Anthropological Dilemma of Angelism versus Animalism by Retrieving Thomas's Integral Doctrine of Human Nature
- 4. "Democracy after Christendom" - Sovereign Secularism, Genuine Liberalism, and the Natural Love of God: What Thomas Can Teach Us about Modernity's Fraternal Twins
- Introduction: Sovereign Secularism, Genuine Liberalism, and the Natural Love of God
- I. The Natural Love of God above All: Human Nature Metaphysically Considered
- II. The Wounds of Human Nature Consequent upon Sin: A Theological Phenomenology of the State of Corrupt Human Nature
- III. The Natural Love of God above All in the State of Integral Human Nature and in the State of Corrupt Human Nature
- IV. The Church's Perennial Proximate Political Vocation
- B. Created for Happiness, Bound for Heaven - Nature and the Supernatural
- 5. "Palaeothomism?" - The Continuing Debate over the Natural Desire for the Vision of God
- I. What Is the Human Being? - Two Overarching Types of Answers
- II. The Controversy over la nouvelle théologie
- III. Lawrence Feingold's Thomist Provocation of the Settled Lubacian Consensus vs. John Milbank's Radicalized Lubacianism
- IV. Thomas Aquinas - the "Other"
- V. Is the Rational Creature "Intrinsically Linked to Grace"? Feingold's Thomist Engagement of Henri de Lubac's Position
- 6. "Thomist Ressourcement" - A Rereading of Thomas on the Natural Desire for the Vision of God
- I. Summa contra Gentiles III, c. 25 in Its Discursive Context: A Relecture
- II. The Desire for God: Sic et Non - Marie-Joseph Le Guillou's Response to Henri de Lubac's Surnaturel
- Conclusion
- C. Bound to Be Free, Suffering Divine Things - Grace and the Theological Virtues
- 7. "Thomas the Augustinian" - Recovering a Surpassing Synthesis of Grace and Free Will
- Introduction
- I. Erasmus and Luther: Two Reductive Augustinianisms post Ockham
- II. Augustine's Complex Position
- III. Divine Transcendent Causality: Thomas's Surpassing Augustinian Synthesis
- 8. "In Hope He Believed Against Hope" - The Unity of Faith and Hope in Paul, Thomas, and Benedict XVI
- I. Faith - Substance of Things Hoped For
- II. Hope
- III. In Hope She Believed against Hope: Pope Benedict's Hopeful Pedagogy on Hope
- IV. God, Faith, Hope - an Offer to a Modernity in Crisis
- 9. "A Forgotten Truth?" - Theological Faith, Source and Guarantee of Theology's Inner Unity
- I. Theology as a Historical-Hermeneutical Process
- II. Theology as a Potential Whole
- III. Theological Faith, Source and Guarantee of Theology's Inner Unity
- D. Seeking Truth - Wisdom and Contemplation
- 10. "The Wisdom of Analogy Defended" - From Effect to Cause, from Creation to God
- I. Introduction: Two Protestant Objections to Analogical Predication of God in Thomas: Anthropomorphism (Pannenberg) and Apophaticism (Jüngel)
- II. Analogy in Thomas
- III. Conclusion: A Response secundum mentem S. Thomae to the Two Protestant Objections to Analogical Predication of God in Thomas
- 11. "Seeking Truth on Dry Soil and under Thornbushes" - God, the University, and the Missing Link: Wisdom
- I. God, Philosophy, Universities
- II. The Way toward Wisdom
- Postlude - Mystery and Metaphysics
- 12. "This Is My Body" - Eucharistic Adoration and Metaphysical Contemplation
- Introduction
- The Emerging Liturgical Practice of Eucharistic Adoration
- Explicit Magisterial Confirmation of Eucharistic Adoration
- An Instance of the Contemporary Practice of the Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
- Three Kinds of Divine Presence: By Way of the Divine Essence, by Way of the Mission of the Holy Spirit, and by Way of Christ's Substantial Personal Presence, Body, Soul, and Divinity
- Thomas Aquinas: Metaphysical Contemplation in Service of Making Intellectually Explicit a Mystery of Faith
- Making Explicit: Metaphysical Contemplation
- The Integrity of the Sacramental Sign
- Coda
- A Methodological Postscript: Making Explicit the Operative Understanding of Catholic Theology, Philosophy, and Liturgy
- Bibliography
- Credits
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
