Eternal life and human happiness in heaven : philosophical problems, Thomistic solutions / Christopher M. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Christopher M. (Christopher Mark), author.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Thomas.

Catholic Church--Doctrines.

Catholic Church.

Future life--Christianity.

Future life.

Happiness--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Happiness.

Philosophy, Medieval.

Philosophical theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 487 pages)

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part 1. Four Apparent Problems Concerning Eternal Life

1. Contemporary Philosophy and Theology and Two Problems concerning the Nature of Heaven

2. Contemporary Philosophy and Theology and a Third Problem concerning the Nature of Heaven

3. Contemporary Philosophy and Theology and the Problem of the Tedium of (Heavenly) Immortality

Part 2. St. Thomas on the Essential Reward in Heaven

4. Human beatitudo in Heaven

5. The Essential Reward I: The Essential Characteristics of the Beatific Vision

6. The Essential Reward II: The Primary and Secondary Objects of the Beatific Vision

7. The Essential Reward III: The Beatific Vision as Participation in God's Eternal Life

8. The Essential Reward IV: The Proper Accidents of the Beatific Vision

Part 3. St. Thomas on the Accidental Reward in Heaven

9. The Accidental Reward I: The Relative Importance of Embodiment for Human Happiness in Heaven

10. The Accidental Reward II: Resurrection Bodies

11. The Accidental Reward III: Glorified Bodies

12. The Accidental Reward IV: The Communion of the Saints, the Aureoles, and the Fruits

13. The Accidental Reward V: Nonhuman Material Beings in Heaven

Part 4. Thomistic Solutions to Four Apparent Problems Concerning Eternal Life

14. A Thomistic Solution to PNH-I: The Goods of the Beatific Vision and the City of God, Rightly Ordered

15. A Thomistic Solution to PNH-II: Transfigured Human Embodiment

16. A Thomistic Solution to PNH-III: Heaven as Perfectly Dynamic

17. A Thomistic Solution to the Problem of the Tedium of Heavenly Immortality

Conclusion

Selected Bibliography

Scriptural Index

General Index

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Brown, Christopher M. (Christopher Mark). Eternal life and human happiness in heaven.

ISBN:

9780813234151

0813234158

Publisher Number:

40030848700

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