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Christ's Fulfillment of Torah and Temple: Salvation according to Thomas Aquinas

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Description for Christ's Fulfillment of Torah and Temple: Salvation according to Thomas Aquinas Paperback. An introduction to the Christian theology of salvation in light of the contributions of Thomas Aquinas. In the study, Matthew Levering identifies six important aspects of soteriology - including Jesus' cross, and eternal life - each of which corresponds to an individual chapter in the book. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.

Christ’s Fulfillment of Torah and Temple is a concise introduction to the Christian theology of salvation in light of the contributions of Thomas Aquinas. In this cogent study, Matthew Levering identifies six important aspects of soteriology, each of which corresponds to an individual chapter in the book. Levering focuses on human history understood in light of the divine law and covenants, Jesus the Incarnate Son of God and Messiah of Israel, Jesus’ cross, transformation in the image of God, the Mystical Body of Christ into which all human beings are called, and eternal life.

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Thomas Aquinas’s theology of salvation employs and develops the concepts of satisfaction and merit in light of his theology of the Old Testament. For Aquinas, Christ fulfills Israel’s Torah and Temple, law and liturgy. These two aspects of Israel’s religion provide the central categories for understanding salvation. The Torah expresses God’s Wisdom, incarnated in Jesus Christ. Christ’s passion, then, fulfills and transforms the moral, juridical, and ceremonial precepts of the Torah, which correspond to the three “offices” of ancient Israel—prophet, king, and priest. The New Law in Christ Jesus is also the fulfillment of the Temple, Israel’s worship. Christ offers the Father the perfect worship, participated in by all members of his Mystical Body through faith, charity, and the sacraments. Old Law and New Law are fulfilled in the perfect knowing and loving (perfect law and liturgy) of eternal life, the Heavenly Jerusalem.

As a Thomistic contribution to contemporary theology, this fruitful study develops a theology of salvation in accord with contemporary canonical readings of Scripture and with the teachings of the Second Vatican Council on the fulfillment and permanence of God’s covenants.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268022730
SKU
V9780268022730
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About Matthew Levering
Matthew Levering is professor of theology at the University of Dayton. He is the author of Participatory Biblical Exegesis: A Theology of Biblical Interpretation, and coauthor of Knowing the Love of Christ: An Introduction to the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas, both published by the University of Notre Dame Press.

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“[A]n instructive survey and analysis of Thomas’ understanding of the connections between Old and New Testaments, with special attention to the ways in which the Christian understanding of salvation includes the fulfillment of Israel’s law and worship.”—First Things “Matthew Levering is one of the brightest of the Thomistic new wave and in this exciting book, he displays, for a wide ... Read more

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