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Thomas Aquinas on Seeing God

by Katja Krause

Christian sectsBeatific visionEarly works to 1800Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)IntellectSententiarum libri IV (Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris)

"Thomas Aquinas's first eschatological account of the beatific vision 'face-to-face', as presented in his commentary on Peter Lombard's Sentences, integrates the theological discourse of his times with newly available philosophical reasoning. This book provides a translation of book 4, distinction 49, question 2 of his commentary, and comprehensively examines, in the introductions and notes, how Aquinas solved the deepest conceptual dilemmas of his predecessors"--

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