God and evil in the theology of St Thomas Aquinas / Herbert McCabe ; edited and introduced by Brian Davies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCabe, Herbert, 1926-2001, author.

Contributor:

Davies, Brian, 1951- editor.

Eagleton, Terry, 1943- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Thomas.

Good and evil--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Good and evil.

Theodicy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Herbert McCabe was one of the most original and creative theologians of recent years. Continuum has published numerous volumes of unpublished typescripts left behind by him following his untimely death in 2001. This book is the sixth to appear. McCabe was deeply immersed in the philosophical theology of St Thomas Aquinas and was responsible in part for the notable revival of interest in the thought of Aquinas in our time. Here he tackles the problem of evil by focusing and commenting on what Aquinas said about it. What should we mean by words such as 'good', 'bad', 'being', 'cause', 'creation'

Contents:

Forward / Terry Eagleton

Introduction / Brian Davies

The statement of the problem

Metaphysical preliminaries

Good and evil

The creator and evil

The cause of evil

Afterword

Appendix 1 : 'Categories'

Appendix 2 : editions of St Thomas's writings cited in this volume.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-194) and index.

ISBN:

9786612871412

9781472966032

1472966031

9781441121226

1441121226

9781282871410

1282871412

9781441111562

1441111565

OCLC:

676697352