To Stir a Restless Heart

by Jacob W. Wood
Thomistic ressourcement series ;
Catholic University of America Press, 2019
eISBN: 978-0-8132-3184-6, Cloth: 978-0-8132-3183-9

ABOUT THIS BOOK
To Stir a Restless Heart tells for the first time the story of how Thomas Aquinas conversed with his contemporaries about the dynamics of human nature’s longing for God, and documents how he deliberately utilized Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin sources to develop a version of Aristotelian natural desire that was uniquely Augustinian: natural desire seeks the complete fulfillment of human nature “insofar as is possible,” and so comes to rest in the highest end that God offers to it. Depending on whether God offers the free gift of grace to humanity, one and the same natural desire can come to rest in knowing God through creatures or seeing God directly.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Augustine's Desire for Happiness
The Thomistic Tradition's Natural Desire for God
Henri de Lubac's Natural Desire for a Supernatural End
A Thirteenth-Century Resolution?
Notes about the Text
Theology at the Turn of the Thirteenth Century
Twelfth-Century Latin Augustinianism: Peter Lombard
The Rise of Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition
Latin Aristotelian-Augustinianism: Philip the Chancellor
Latin Avicennian-Augustinianism
Richard Rufus
William of Auvergne
The Summa fratris Alexandri
Roger Bacon
Albert the Great
A Mid-Thirteenth-Century Synthesis: Bonaventure of Bagnoregio
Conclusion
Thomas's Encounter with the Parisian Conversation
Nature
Grace
The Desire for God
Theological Challenges
De veritate
Nature and Grace
The Natural Desire for God
Theological Challenges
Conclusion
3. Orvieto (1259/61–1265)
The Literal Commentary on Job
The Summa contra Gentiles
Nature
Grace
Natural Desire
The Natural Desire for God
The Natural Desire for the Vision of God
Conclusion
4. Rome (1265–1268)
Quaestiones disputatae de potentia
Quaestiones disputatae de anima
Sententia libri De anima
Quaestiones disputatae de spiritualibus creaturis
Nature and Grace
Natural Desire
The Natural Desire for the Vision of God
Conclusion
5. Thomas's Second Parisian Period (1268–1272)
Sententia libri Physicorum
De unitate intellectus
The Condemnation of 1270 and the De malo
The Summa theologiae, Prima secundae (1271)
Natural Desire
The Natural Desire for the Vision of God
Nature and Grace
Theological Solutions from the Secunda secundae
Conclusion
6. Henri de Lubac and the Thomistic Tradition
Giles of Rome
John Duns Scotus
Tommaso de Vio "Cajetan"
Francisco Suárez
The Aegidian Tradition
De Lubac's Early Work
Surnaturel
"Duplex hominis beatitudo" and "Le mystère du surnaturel"
Humani Generis and "The Twins"
Conclusion
De Lubac's Relationship to the Thomistic Tradition
Toward the Reconciliation of the Nature/Grace Debate
Commentatorial Objections
Lubacian Objections
Bibliography
Index

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