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dc.contributor.advisorWolfe, Judith (Judith E.)
dc.contributor.authorGrant, Euan Alexander
dc.coverage.spatial[8], 222 p.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-20T15:21:51Z
dc.date.available2020-02-20T15:21:51Z
dc.date.issued2020-06-25
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/19510
dc.description.abstractContemporary debate over the interrelations of nature, history, and participation reveal significant faultlines in theology broadly aligned with the Catholic tradition. In particular, works by Henri de Lubac, Lawrence Feingold, and John Milbank reveal that the concept of human nature remains a source of considerable debate. De Lubac’s work unsettled many of the metaphysical assumptions which had defined Catholic thought in the earlier twentieth century, and Feingold and Milbank represent strongly divergent responses to his theological inheritance. Analysing the distinctions of these thinkers reveals disagreements on four themes: the relation of nature and history, the orientation of nature to God, the structure of nature as a unity, and the participation of nature in God (part 1). The thought of Thomas Aquinas, a significant source for each of these thinkers, reveals new connections in this debate, particularly when approached through his understanding of the doctrine of original sin. Aspects of Thomas’ account, particularly when contrasted with those of his near-contemporaries Henry of Ghent and John Duns Scotus, reveal the significance of history as qualifying Thomas’ understanding of human existence (part 2). Discussing the workings and ends of the human intellect and will in this light reveals further elements of historicity built in to Thomas’ understanding of the orientation and structure of human nature (part 3). On this basis, it is possible to reconcile significant emphases in the theologies of de Lubac and Feingold; however, Milbank’s vision of a cosmos inherently participating in deification remains at odds with Thomas’ recognition of limitation and finitude as irreducible aspects of participation in God through a history as yet only directed to, not yet participating in, its eschatological fulfilment (conclusion).en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrews
dc.subjectThomas Aquinasen_US
dc.subjectHenri de Lubacen_US
dc.subjectLawrence Feingolden_US
dc.subjectJohn Milbanken_US
dc.subjectOriginal sinen_US
dc.subjectTheological anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.lccB765.T53Z7G8
dc.subject.lcshThomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274en
dc.subject.lcshSin, Originalen
dc.subject.lcshTheological anthropology--Catholic Churchen
dc.subject.lcshCatholic Church--Doctrinesen
dc.titleNature, history, and participation : the contribution of Thomas Aquinas' doctrine of original sin to a contemporary debateen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.contributor.sponsorUniversity of St Andrews. School of Divinityen_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US
dc.rights.embargodate2025-02-10
dc.rights.embargoreasonThesis restricted in accordance with University regulations. Print and electronic copy restricted until 10th February 2025en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.17630/10023-19510


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