St Thomas Aquinas on salvation, making satisfaction, and restoration of friendship with God
(2019)
Journal Article
Van Nieuwenhove, R. (2019). St Thomas Aquinas on salvation, making satisfaction, and restoration of friendship with God. The Thomist, 83, 521-545
Professor Rik Van Nieuwenhove's Outputs (4)
Protest Theism, Aquinas, and Suffering (2019)
Book Chapter
Van Nieuwenhove, R. (2019). Protest Theism, Aquinas, and Suffering. In K. Kilby, & R. Davies (Eds.), Suffering and the Christian life (71-86). Bloomsbury
Assent to Faith, Theology and Scientia in Aquinas (2019)
Journal Article
in Aquinas. New Blackfriars, 100(1088), 410-424. https://doi.org/10.1111/nbfr.12448This paper revisits Aquinas's understanding of theology as a science based on a participation in the divine scientia. Our modern presuppositions (in terms of “autonomous” reason and philosophy as a discipline utterly separate from theology) often app... Read More about Assent to Faith, Theology and Scientia in Aquinas.
Searching for a Connection: Prayer and contemplation 'broadly conceived' in Thomas Aquinas (2019)
Journal Article
Van Nieuwenhove, R. (2019). Searching for a Connection: Prayer and contemplation 'broadly conceived' in Thomas Aquinas. Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses (Gedrukt), 95(2), 283-298. https://doi.org/10.2143/etl.95.2.3286477This article considers the connection – or lack of connection – between prayer and contemplation in the writings of St Thomas Aquinas from his Commentary on the Sentences to the Summa Theologiae. The first part examines the meaning of 'contemplation'... Read More about Searching for a Connection: Prayer and contemplation 'broadly conceived' in Thomas Aquinas.