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Divine law was defined as Biblically revealed law from God. This law was directly from God, and was therefore perfect and greater than human or natural laws. The law that he speaks about...
In this new work, Budziszewski reinvestigates the theory of divine law in Aquinas's Summa Theologiae, exploring questions concerning faith and reason, natural law and revelation, the organization of human society, and the ultimate destiny of human life.
- J. Budziszewski
- 2021
Thomas Aquinas's classic Treatise on Divine Law is brought to life in this illuminating line-by-line commentary, which acts as a sequel to Budziszewski's Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Law. In this new work, Budziszewski reinvestigates the theory of divine law in Aquinas's Summa Theologiae, exploring questions concerning faith and ...
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Thomas notes there that there are two kinds of truths about God: those truths that can be apprehended by reason apart from divine revelation, for example, that God exists and that there is one God (in the Summa theologiae, Thomas calls such truths about God the preambles to the faith) and those truths about God the apprehension of which ...
That all law has a divine origin is a doctrine not difficult to find in the writings of Thomas Aquinas. At Summa Theologica (hereinafter ST) 1-2.93.3 the explicit point is that all law derives from the eternal law, eternal law which has already been explained as "the plan of divine wisdom inasmuch as it is directive of all acts and movements."
In Aquinas’ analysis of law, divine law and eternal law are neither identical nor coextensive. Divine law primarily reduces to the commandments of God, which are the prescriptive propositions found in the scriptures. This is part of what Aquinas would call “revelation.”
In this new work, Budziszewski reinvestigates the theory of divine law in Aquinas's Summa Theologiae, exploring questions concerning faith and reason, natural law and revelation, the organization of human society, and the ultimate destiny of human life.
