The Myth of Dante's Thomism? Reading Aquinas and Dante with the Dominicans | Prof. George Corbett
The Thomistic Institute
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Aquinas and Dante's De Veritarte - The Natural Desire for the Vision of God
Foster takes a Aquinas position on this question, the natural desire for the beatific vision, as self-evident. He quotes two passages from Aquinas' Sumatore Gie and Suma Contregentiles where Aquinas is approaching the same question theologically. Foster: The distinction between essence and existence in creatures and their identity in God, to achieve some essence of existence, is rather what the historian Etienne Gillson considered to be original to Aquinas.
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