Hewitt, S orcid.org/0000-0003-2720-4428 (2020) Disowning the Mystery: Stump's Non-Apophatic Aquinas. Medieval Mystical Theology, 29 (1). pp. 3-14. ISSN 2046-5726
Abstract
On the face of it Aquinas stands in the mainstream of Western mystical theology, and in particular is a noteworthy proponent of negative theology. This view, however, is challenged within anglophone philosophical theology. The clearest attack on the view that Aquinas is an apophatic theologian is to be found in Eleonore Stump's Aquinas. This paper lays out Stump's reasons for reading Aquinas as non-apophatic, and shows that they are not convincing. Aquinas, it concludes, meant what he said when he claimed that we do not know what God is.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Eckhart Society 2020. This is an author produced version of an article published in Medieval Mystical Theology. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Aquinas, apophaticism, divine simplicity |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > School of Philosophy (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Leverhulme Trust ECF-2017-123 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 11 May 2020 09:53 |
Last Modified: | 08 Jan 2022 01:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/20465726.2020.1774167 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:160217 |