Search results
Dec 2, 2005 · One of the reasons why Aquinas’ political theory departs significantly from Aristotle’s is that Aquinas believes he has access to facts and considerations unavailable to Aristotle, namely to the public divine revelation completed in the works and sayings of Christ, founder of a spiritual community, the (Catholic = “universal”) Church.
People also ask
What is divine law Aquinas?
How does Aquinas transmit the law?
How did Aquinas view human law?
How did Aquinas think about moral law?
As Aquinas explains, “the very idea of the government of things in God the Ruler of the universe, has the nature of a law. And since Divine Reason’s conception of things is not subject to time but is eternal, according to Prov. viii, 23…this kind of law must be called eternal.” (Ibid.).
Quick answer: St. Thomas Aquinas's conception of divine law is that it is revealed directly by God and is distinct from natural and human laws. Divine law is accessible through divine revelations...
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.”
- Anthony J. Lisska
- 2015
Thomas thinks there are two kinds of truths about God: (a) those truths that can be demonstrated philosophically and (b) those truths that human beings can come to know only by the grace of divine revelation.
Unlike St Augustine and other earlier Christian thinkers St Thomas identified four types of law — the eternal law, the divine law, the natural law, and positive, human law — and the essay sets out the nature of, as well as the inter-relationship between, each of these types.
Dec 7, 2022 · One way in which it is transmitted is through divine law, preeminently through the Bible, and here Aquinas distinguishes between the old law of the Hebrew Bible (qq. 98–105) and the new law described in the Gospel (qq. 106–8).
