Truth in Aquinas (Routledge Radical Orthodoxy) - Softcover

John Milbank; Catherine Pickstock

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415233356 ISBN 13: 9780415233354

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

Provocative and sophisticated, Truth in Aquinas is a fascinating re-evaluation of a key area - truth - in the work of Thomas Aquinas. John Milbank and Catherine Pickstock's provocative but strongly argued position is that many of the received views of Aquinas as philosopher and theologian are wrong.
This compelling and controversial work builds on the amazing reception of Radical Orthodoxy (Routledge, 1999).

About this title

From the Back Cover:

In this book, Milbank and Pickstock present a wholesale re-evaluation of the thought of Thomas Aquinas. They claim, against many received readings, that Aquinas's philosophical account of truth is also an entirely theological one. His understanding of truth as adequatio is shown to be inseparable from his metaphysical and doctrinal treatment of the participation of creatures in God as esse; from his theory of the convertibility of the transcendentals as mediated by the transcendental 'beauty'; and from his Christology and theology of the Eucharist. This vision is remote from the assumptions undergirding modern accounts of truth as correspondence or coherence or redundancy. Since these accounts are all in crisis, Milbank and Pickstock ask whether Aquinas's theological framework is not essential to the affirmation of the reality of truth as such. Compelling and challenging, Truth in Aquinas develops further the innovative theological project heralded by the publication of the seminal Radical Orthodoxy (Routledge, 1999).

About the Author:

John Milbank teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia and is a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. His previous publications include Theology and Social Theory and The Word Made Strange. Catherine Pickstock is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Her previous publications include After Writing: On the Liturgical Consummation of Theology. They are the editors, with Graham Ward, of Routledge's Radical Orthodoxy series.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0415233356
• ISBN 13: 9780415233354
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144