TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Christopher M.
TI  - Eternal life and human happiness in heaven: philosophical problems, Thomistic solutions 
SN  - 9780813234151
AV  - B765 .E847 2021
KW  - Thomas,
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Doctrines
KW  - Future life
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Happiness
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Philosophy, Medieval
KW  - Philosophical theology
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction --; Part 1. Four Apparent Problems Concerning Eternal Life --; 1. Contemporary Philosophy and Theology and Two Problems concerning the Nature of Heaven --; 2. Contemporary Philosophy and Theology and a Third Problem concerning the Nature of Heaven --; 3. Contemporary Philosophy and Theology and the Problem of the Tedium of (Heavenly) Immortality --; Part 2. St. Thomas on the Essential Reward in Heaven --; 4. Human beatitudo in Heaven --; 5. The Essential Reward I: The Essential Characteristics of the Beatific Vision --; 6. The Essential Reward II: The Primary and Secondary Objects of the Beatific Vision --; 7. The Essential Reward III: The Beatific Vision as Participation in God's Eternal Life --; 8. The Essential Reward IV: The Proper Accidents of the Beatific Vision --; Part 3. St. Thomas on the Accidental Reward in Heaven --; 9. The Accidental Reward I: The Relative Importance of Embodiment for Human Happiness in Heaven --; 10. The Accidental Reward II: Resurrection Bodies --; 11. The Accidental Reward III: Glorified Bodies --; 12. The Accidental Reward IV: The Communion of the Saints, the Aureoles, and the Fruits --; 13. The Accidental Reward V: Nonhuman Material Beings in Heaven --; Part 4. Thomistic Solutions to Four Apparent Problems Concerning Eternal Life --; 14. A Thomistic Solution to PNH-I: The Goods of the Beatific Vision and the City of God, Rightly Ordered --; 15. A Thomistic Solution to PNH-II: Transfigured Human Embodiment --; 16. A Thomistic Solution to PNH-III: Heaven as Perfectly Dynamic --; 17. A Thomistic Solution to the Problem of the Tedium of Heavenly Immortality --; Conclusion; 2; b
N2  - "Considers four apparent problems of eternal life--is heaven a mystical or social reality, is it other-worldly or this-worldly, is it static or dynamic, is it boring?--and shows how the teachings of Thomas Aquinas support more satisfying solutions than many contemporary philosophical and theological approaches"--
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