Soteriology of Merit and Friendship. Saint Thomas Aquinas Considering Cur Deus Homo of Saint Anselm
Abstract
The article presents actual debate about interpretations of Aquinas ́s soteriology and focus his attention particularly to two concepts, which plays important role in thomistic approach to salvation. First, is the understanding of satisfaction which received in theology of Aquinas a personalist meaning. The main topic is manifest relationship with Anselm’s satisfaction and another perspective that take Thomas: juridical language can not occult his rely on friendship as principal category of his soteriological thinking. Thomas doesn’t develop the latest reformation idea of satisfactio vicaria, because his perspective is the inclusion of the believer in Christ. Besides, among the motives of incarnation the satisfaction is the last one. Second, the notion of merit has a profound relational character and manifest solidarity of Christ with the member of Mystical Body. In the presentation of Thomas’s thinking about Anselm theory we pay attention to the change of his attitude towards satisfactory from commentary do the Sentences to Summa Theologiae.
Keywords:
Thomas Aquinas, merit, satisfaction, medieval exegesisLicense
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