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The Summa contra gentiles is perhaps the most peculiar work of St. Thomas Aquinas, due to Thomas's decision to structure the work first according to what humans can say about God without revelation and then what humans can say about God once revelation is explicitly introduced. Such an approach to the human pursuit of the divine is otherwise unheard of in Thomas's own day, and this unusual structure has provided a fertile seedbed for a wide range of interpretations. Matthew Kostelecky's book shows the integral relationship between the conceptions of human nature and God operative throughout the Summa contra gentiles such that the text is always in a twofold movement, at once describing what humans can say about God while also reflecting human nature back on itself by delineating its limits and capabilities with respect to the possible human knowledge of God. As a result, the Summa contra gentiles is presented as a mirror of human nature as that nature is directed to its most noble object.

Philosophy and religion --- Thomas, --- Thomas, - Aquinas, Saint, - 1225?-1274. - Summa contra gentiles

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This is the first book published in English to offer a Lacanian feminist reading of Thomas Aquinas. Focusing on the centrality of desire and embodiment in Thomas’s theology and Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory, it traces an overgrown path through changing configurations of God, gender, and nature from their Aristotelian formation in the medieval universities to their fragmentation in the collapse of modernity’s visions and values. Theology after Postmodernity offers a penetrating critique of Thomas’s Aristotelianism, while excavating the neglected mystical dimensions of his theology. In engagement with Lacan, it explores the ways in which the God of pre-modern Catholicism remains an unconscious but potent influence in the shaping of the modern soul, and it asks what transformations might be needed in order to bring about a Thomism for our times. Probing beneath the surface of Thomas’s Summa Theologiae and other writings, and drawing on the writings of Catherine of Siena as well as Thomas, it brings to light the Other of Thomas’s One God—an ephemeral maternal Trinity who shimmers into view when Thomas’s Aristotelian onto-theology is suspended to allow a more incarnational and relational theology to emerge. The book argues that Lacan makes possible a renewed Thomism in the form of a rich mystical theology of creation, incarnation, and redemption. This mystical Thomism offers a theological vision that addresses some of the most urgent and far-reaching challenges which postmodernity poses to Christian doctrine and practice, with a particular focus on questions of God, grace, nature, and gender.

Psychoanalysis and religion --- Postmodernism --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Thomas, --- Lacan, Jacques, --- 2 THOMAS AQUINAS --- 1 LACAN, JACQUES --- 230*705 --- 230*711 --- 230*711 Feministische theologie --- Feministische theologie --- 230*705 Post-moderne theologie. Postmoderne theologie --- Post-moderne theologie. Postmoderne theologie --- 1 LACAN, JACQUES Filosofie. Psychologie--LACAN, JACQUES --- Filosofie. Psychologie--LACAN, JACQUES --- 2 THOMAS AQUINAS Godsdienst. Theologie--THOMAS AQUINAS --- Godsdienst. Theologie--THOMAS AQUINAS --- Postmodernism - Religious aspects - Christianity --- Thomas, - Aquinas, Saint, - 1225?-1274 --- Lacan, Jacques, - 1901-1981

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A confluence of scholarly interest has resulted in a revival of Thomistic scholarship across the world. Several areas in the investigation of St. Thomas Aquinas, however, remain under-explored. This volume contributes to two of these neglected areas. First, the volume evaluates the contemporary relevance of St. Thomas's views for the philosophy and practice of education. The second area explored involves the intersections of the Angelic Doctor’s thought and the numerous cultures and intellectual traditions of the East. Contributors to this section examine the reception, creative appropriation, and various points of convergence between St. Thomas and the East.

Civilization, Oriental. --- Education -- Philosophy. --- Philosophy, Asian. --- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. --- Education --- Philosophy, Asian --- Civilization, Oriental --- Philosophy & Religion --- Philosophy --- Philosophy. --- Thomas, --- Civilization, Eastern --- Eastern civilization --- Oriental civilization --- Asian philosophy --- Oriental philosophy --- Philosophy, Oriental --- Akʻvineli, Tʻoma, --- Akvinietis, Tomas, --- Akvinskiĭ, Foma, --- Aquinas, --- Aquinas, Thomas, --- Foma, --- Thomas Aquinas, --- Tʻoma, --- Toma, --- Tomas, --- Tomasu, --- Tomasu, Akwinasu, --- Tomasz, --- Tommaso, --- Tʻovma, --- Тома, Аквінський, --- תומאס, --- תומס, --- اكويني ، توما --- Medieval philosophy. --- Philosophy and social sciences. --- Medieval Philosophy. --- Educational Philosophy. --- Non-Western Philosophy. --- Philosophy of Education. --- History of Philosophy. --- Philosophy, medieval. --- Philosophy (General). --- Medieval philosophy --- Scholasticism --- Education—Philosophy. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Social sciences and philosophy --- Social sciences --- Ākvīnās, Tūmās, --- اكويني، توما, --- آکويناس، توماس, --- Philosophy, Medieval. --- Philosophy, Modern. --- Philosophical Traditions. --- History. --- Modern philosophy