Conference Presentations by Dominic Legge
¿Qué significa hablar de la fe como iluminación de la mente humana? ¿No es acaso la fe más semeja... more ¿Qué significa hablar de la fe como iluminación de la mente humana? ¿No es acaso la fe más semejante a un salto en la oscuridad, que a la recepción de una luz más elevada? De acuerdo con muchos pensadores destacados de la Ilustración [o el Iluminismo], solo la razón, solo la filosofía, pueden reclamar legítimamente el título de ilustración. Immanuel Kant, por ejemplo, argumenta que los dogmas religiosos son un obstáculo para la ilustración de la mente humana.
Papers by Dominic Legge
The Thomist, 2020
What does it mean to say that, "by the Holy Spirit [de Spiritu Sancto]," the only-begotten Son of... more What does it mean to say that, "by the Holy Spirit [de Spiritu Sancto]," the only-begotten Son of God was "incarnate of the Virgin Mary [ex Maria Virgine]"? St. Thomas Aquinas offers a scripturally and dogmatically satisfying and coherent account of the Holy Spirit's place in this key mystery. Investigating this theme opens a window into Aquinas's Spirit-Christology, which highlights the importance of the Holy Spirit for Christology while at the same time safeguarding the central place of Christ's identity as the Word, and the consubstantial unity of the Triune God.
Nova et Vetera, 2019
Two prominent scholars on the history of natural rights disagree sharply on many issues, but they... more Two prominent scholars on the history of natural rights disagree sharply on many issues, but they agree in opining that Aquinas did not have such a doctrine: Michel Villey, La formation de la pensée juridique moderne: cours d'histoire de la philosophie du droit (Paris: Montcrestien
Books by Dominic Legge
The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas, 2022
The Trinitarian Christology of St Thomas Aquinas brings to light the Trinitarian riches in Thomas... more The Trinitarian Christology of St Thomas Aquinas brings to light the Trinitarian riches in Thomas Aquinas's Christology. Dominic Legge, O.P, disproves Karl Rahner's assertion that Aquinas divorces the study of Christ from the Trinity, by offering a stimulating re-reading of Aquinas on his own terms, as a profound theologian of the Trinitarian mystery of God as manifested in and through Christ. Legge highlights that, for Aquinas, Christology is intrinsically Trinitarian, in its origen and its principles, its structure, and its role in the dispensation of salvation. He investigates the Trinitarian shape of the incarnation itself: the visible mission of the Son, sent by the Father, implicating the invisible mission of the Holy Spirit to his assumed human nature. For Aquinas, Christ's humanity, at its deepest foundations, incarnates the very personal being of the divine Son and Word of the Father, and hence every action of Christ reveals the Father, is from the Father, and leads back to the Father. This study also uncovers a remarkable Spirit Christology in Aquinas: Christ as man stands in need of the Spirit's anointing to carry out his saving work; his supernatural human knowledge is dependent on the Spirit's gift; and it is the Spirit who moves and guides him in every action, from Nazareth to Golgotha.
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