St. Thomas Aquinas on Sacred Scripture and Holiness
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: In this article I intend to show that the profound Scriptural roots of St. Thomas' thought on holiness. Although I will limit myself to three topics, namely (1) the holiness of God, (2) the holiness of creatures and in particular Christ as man and (3) holiness and the moral life, such an analysis reveals three fundamental features of his biblical exegesis. First, reading Sacred Scripture is first and foremost a confessional exegesis. Second, St. Thomas is able to show the fruitfulness of using a Dionysian metaphysics as an explicative tool in addressing the truth of Sacred Scripture. Thirdly, this truth is a Person, the Person of Christ.
Author: Jörgen Vijgen
Institution: Tilburg University
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4408579230