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The article presents the question of understanding divine causality and its analogical character in the context of Thomas Aquinas’s teaching on Divine Providence. Analyzing Aquinas’s texts concerning the relation of God’s action towards nature and its activities it is necessary to emphasize the proper understanding of mutual relations between secondary causes and the primary cause which are not on the same level. Influenced by the reflection of M. Dodds and I Silva, the author of the article refers to Aquinas’s biblical commentaries which have not been discussed so far from the perspective of the character of God’s action. In the final part of the article, metaphors used by Thomas in reference to the relation of God towards the world will be presented.

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                    [givenName] => Piotr
                    [affiliation] => Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland
University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
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    [doi] => 10.24204/ejpr.v9i4.1789
    [datePublished] => 2017-12-19
    [pdf] => https://www.philosophy-of-religion.eu/menuscript/index.php/ejpr/article/view/1789/version/389/1967
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Analogical Understanding of Divine Causality in Thomas Aquinas

Piotr
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v9i4.1789

Abstract

The article presents the question of understanding divine causality and its analogical character in the context of Thomas Aquinas’s teaching on Divine Providence. Analyzing Aquinas’s texts concerning the relation of God’s action towards nature and its activities it is necessary to emphasize the proper understanding of mutual relations between secondary causes and the primary cause which are not on the same level. Influenced by the reflection of M. Dodds and I Silva, the author of the article refers to Aquinas’s biblical commentaries which have not been discussed so far from the perspective of the character of God’s action. In the final part of the article, metaphors used by Thomas in reference to the relation of God towards the world will be presented.

Keywords: causality

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