The Christological-Participatory Dynamics of Wisdom in Light of the Super Psalmos of St. Thomas Aquinas
Abstract
The cultivation of the virtues of wisdom in a person’s life is one of the important issues of commentary of St. Thomas Aquinas to the book of Psalms. The prospect of reflection is not limited to the natural effort of knowledge in the light of the ultimate causes, but finds its model and source in the person of Jesus Christ. Referring to the texts Lectura super Psalmos, will be presented Thomas’s Christological interpretation of the Psalms, based on the theory of biblical meanings, but also as a way to recognize the wisdom in its participatory dynamism, which strongly affects the understanding of theology from the perspective of the history of wise contemplation and works of God. Sapiential nature of theology is its sensitivity to that what escapes a cursory observation of the world, reducing it to only to one dimension. In the center of discussion remains the question of the nature of the “analogy of wisdom” in the writings of Aquinas, exposing the perception of wisdom as cognitio divinorum, the necesity to participate in the knowledge of God and the salvific dimension of wisdom.
Keywords:
wisdom, Thomas Aquinas, psalms, participation, metaphorLicense
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