The Angelic Doctor and Angelic Speech: The Development of Thomas Aquinas's Thought on How Angels Communicate

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Demonologie voor de modern mens?

Denial of the existence of demons is a hallmark of the modern worldview. Twentieth-century theology tried to adapt Biblical texts about demons to modernity by interpreting them as mythical expressions for medical and socio-political phenomena or for the existential Angst with regard to unimaginable evil. Karl Barth opts for a soteriological approach. The question if demons (or angels) exist as intelligent and free spiritual beings is usually ignored, side-stepped or answered negatively. This paper argues that medieval angelology offers important methodological and metaphysical insights for addressing the question, though it cannot by itself remove the anxiety the question evokes for the modern worldvie

Synopsis Purioris Theologiae / Synopsis of a Purer Theology. Latin Text and English Translation: Latin Text and English Translation. Volume 3.

This bilingual edition of the Synopsis Purioris Theologiae (1625) makes available for the first time to English readers a seminal treatise of Reformed Scholasticism. Composed by four professors of Leiden University, it gives an exhaustive yet concise presentation of Reformed theology as it was conceived in the first decades of the seventeenth century. From a decidedly Reformed perspective, the Christian doctrine is defined in contrast with alternative or opposite views (Catholic, Spiritualist, Arminian, Socinian). Both on the academic level and on the ecclesiastical level, the Synopsis responds to challenges coming from the immediate context of the early seventeenth century. The disputations of the third and final volume cover topics such as sacraments, church discipline, relation to civil authorities, and eschatology