Verbum
Subtitle: word and idea in Aquinas
By: Bernard J. Lonergan ; edited by David B. Burrell
Contributors: Burrell, David B.
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Notre Dame, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Thomas, -- Aquinas, Saint, -- 1225?-1274.; Knowledge, Theory of.
Description: Presents Bernard Lonergan's five "verbum" articles that originally appeared in Theological studies. For Thomist students and scholars this "verbum" study offers a careful appraisal of the Thomist theory of knowledge as well as an introduction to the concepts found in Father Lonergan's "Insight". Since the concept of "verbum" dynamically affects the thought of Aquinas, it is necessary to grasp this concept to understand Thomist metaphysics and rational psychology. Lonergan has carefully analyzed and explicitly outlined "verbum"--an integral part of the Thomist theory of knowledge. "Verbum" is examined as a tool of definition and for its impact on understanding, logical thought procession and related ideas stemming from "verbum". Discusses "the word" and its relation to abstraction. Focusses on St. Thomas' immediate concern in finding in Aristotle the point of insertion for Augustinian thought and in fusing a phenomenology of the subject with a psychology of the soul.
Notes: Bibliogr.

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