Thomas Aquinas on Extraordinary Knowledge

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Knowing is central to Thomas Aquinas’s thought. It not only serves to differentiate human beings from other material beings but renders humans members of a community of intellectual beings who are all ordered to a participation in divine knowing. This course explores cases of extraordinary knowing in Aquinas. After studying the groundwork that Aquinas lays in his broader theory of Divine, angelic, and human knowledge, we will examine special cases such as that of Adam, Christ, the separated soul, prophets, rapture, faith, and the beatific vision.