Christ’s Fulfillment of Torah and Temple: Salvation according to Thomas Aquinas
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
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. Taking the doctrines of faith as his starting point, Levering’s objective is to answer the questions of both Christians and non-Christians who desire to learn how and for what end Jesus “saves” humankind. Levering's work also speaks directly to contemporary systematic theologians. In contrast to widespread assumptions that Aquinas’s theology of salvation is overly abstract or juridical, Levering demonstrates that Aquinas’s theology of salvation flows from his reading of Scripture and deserves a central place in contemporary discussions.
- Concise introduction to the Christian theology of salvation in light of the contributions of Thomas Aquinas
- Identifies six important aspects of soteriology, each of which corresponds to an individual chapter in the book
- Demonstrates that Aquinas’s theology of salvation flows from his reading of Scripture and deserves a central place in contemporary discussions
For experts on Thomas, for amateurs, and for everyone who wants to understand the connections between Old and New Testaments, Matthew Levering proves himself an able and scintillating guide. Those engaged in Jewish-Christian dialogue will find especially instructive Thomas’ understanding of the Church as the “new Israel”.
Richard John Neuhaus, editor in chief, First Things
- Title: Christ’s Fulfillment of Torah and Temple: Salvation according to Thomas Aquinas
- Author: Matthew Levering
- Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
- Print Publication Date: 2002
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Pages: 254
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Salvation; Catholic Church › Doctrines; Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 › Contributions in doctrine of salvation
- ISBNs: 9780268161231, 0268022720, 0268022739, 0268161232, 9780268022723, 9780268022730
- Resource ID: LLS:CHRSTSFLFLLMQNS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:21:25Z
Dr. Matthew Levering is James N. Jr. and Mary D. Perry Chair of Theology at Mundelein Seminary, and Co-Director of the Chicago Theological Initiative. He holds a B.A. from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; M.T.S. from Duke University; and a Ph.D. from Boston College. He is the author or co-author of over thirty-five books including such works as Scripture and Metaphysics, Participatory Biblical Exegesis, Biblical Natural Law, Proofs of God, Aquinas’s Eschatological Ethics and the Virtue of Temperance, Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?, The Abuse of Conscience, and Reconfiguring Thomistic Christology. He is currently at work on a multi-volume dogmatics, whose first five volumes have appeared (most recently Engaging the Doctrine of Israel). He is the editor or co-editor of over twenty books including such works as The Oxford Handbook of Sacramental Theology, Aristotle in Aquinas’s Theology, and The Reception of Vatican II. He is the translator of Gilles Emery, O.P.’’s The Trinity. He co-edits two quarterly journals, Nova et Vetera and the International Journal of Systematic Theology. He is the past president (2021-22) of the Academy of Catholic Theology, and served as its founding Chair of the Board from 2007-2016. He has been a member of Evangelicals and Catholics Together since 2004. With Thomas Joseph White, O.P., he co-edits the Thomistic Ressourcement series for Catholic University of America Press. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the St. Paul Center, and he edits the Renewal within Tradition series for Emmaus Academic Press.