Thomas Aquinas on Human Beings as Image of God

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    Abstract

    Employing a work of modern conceptual art, a manipulated photograph entitled ‘The Missing Person’, the author studies Thomas Aquinas on the concept of human beings as image of (the Triune) God. Typical for Aquinas’ approach is the theocentric focus of his Christian anthropology. The threefold (nature, grace, glory) ‘image of God’, a central and dynamic concept in Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae, is both descriptive and prescriptive in nature, corresponding to an account of both analogical naming of the divine ánd living according to the vocation to become more and more image of the Triune God.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)33-46
    JournalEuropean Journal for the Study of Thomas Aquinas
    Volume38
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2020

    Keywords

    • imago dei
    • Thomistic anthropology
    • Summa Theologiae
    • analogy

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