God's Passions: Unfitting Attributes? Aquinas on the Biblical God
BHT
- Durand, Emmanuel ORCID Fribourg
- 2020
Published in:
- Nova et vetera. - Project MUSE. - 2020, vol. 18, no. 4, p. 1235-1246
English
I begin with Aquinas treatment of the problem of God’s passions, in Summa Contra Gentiles, Book I, which leads to a different outcome than Spinoza’s (part 1). I will highlight the linguistic dimension of Aquinas’ interpretation of God’s improper passions. He uses two different constructions of metaphors, giving way to two very different strategies of interpretation (part 2). I will then suggest this innovative insight of Aquinas can be unpacked thanks to Ricoeur’s twofold characterization of metaphor, in rhetoric or in semantic. Regarding God’s emotions, the semantic frame should be extended to include narrativity (part 3). I will eventually suggest one possible application of this line of investigation, to be applied to God’s sadness. Overall, my approach requires to slow down the process of interpreting God’s emotions (part 4).
- Faculty
- Faculté de théologie
- Department
- Département des Sciences de la foi et des religions, Philosophie
- Language
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- English
- License
- License undefined
- Open access status
- green
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.1353/nov.2020.0065
- ISSN 2470-5861
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/330475
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