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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/113636| Title: | Sources of resilience in Thomas Aquinas |
| Other Titles: | Resilience in a troubled world : proceedings of the Malta international theological conference III |
| Authors: | Roszak, Piotr |
| Keywords: | Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 Resilience (Personality trait) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Theology, Doctrinal Christian sociology |
| Issue Date: | 2023 |
| Publisher: | Kite Group |
| Citation: | Roszak, P. (2023). Sources of resilience in Thomas Aquinas. In J.A. Berry (Ed.), Resilience in a Troubled World: Proceedings of the Malta International Theological Conference III (pp. 61-74). Malta: Kite Group |
| Abstract: | In the prologue of his commentary on the First Letter of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Aquinas quotes the image of Noah’s ark raised on the waves of the flood, which, however, does not melt when the water rises, but floats on them. The rough water is for him an image of tribulations experienced by the Church as a community, in which there is nothing that remain quenched or sunk, but, through the elevation of the mind and spiritual consolation, is saved. This allegorical image of the Church as an ark (widely developed in the Middle Ages by the exegetes of the School of St. Victor in Paris, in particularly), which does not fight against the waves, but rather floats on them, fits perfectly with resilience. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/113636 |
| ISBN: | 9789918231102 |
| Appears in Collections: | Resilience in a troubled world |
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