AQUINAS ON SALVATION

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This course will introduce students to Aquinas’s theology of salvation as presented in the tertia pars of the Summa theologiae. The course will focus in particular on Aquinas’s theology of Christ’s Cross and on his theology of the Eucharist. In addressing these topics, however, a wide range of questions from the tertia pars will be discussed. Topics to be treated include the Incarnation, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Old Law and New Law of grace, Israel and the Mystical Body, eschatology, the sacraments in general, the theology of sacrifice, charity and the Eucharist, transubstantiation, and the liturgy. Earlier theologians such as St. Anselm, Abelard, and St. Bernard will also be briefly discussed, along with relevant secondary literature on Aquinas’s theology.