Grace via Thomas Aquinas

[Mark Kohut]

Yes, that is right about Aquinas re pantheism or panentheism I think but I
slid into that re Pynchon, not really Aquinas.

If I was unclear with the elision--and I think I was---I did get the notion
of 'everywhereness of religious being' from my understanding of
Aquinas--and I
have learned some and a quick trot thru online explications of his meaning.
Some say---is it not the accepted understanding?--that his meaning of
quiddity
was to show the religiousness of things...that their essence was God-given,
of course.

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 6:11 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> I don't think Aquinas had much time for either pantheism or panentheism
> (Pynchon however may well use all of these frames of reference). If I am
> not mistaken, to be able to understand things exactly as they are, in their
> quiddity, means to be able to perceive them like angels or God perceive
> them (in their essence or substance, perhaps). Which is not possible for
> humans unless they experience a revelation of the divine (like Saul on the
> road to Damascus).
>
> My understanding of TE's Thomist explication is that Aquinas did seem
>> to mean a kind of
>> everywhereness of religious being.....for me in the context of AtD, I
>> loved learning of panentheism (as distinct from pantheism)
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panentheism
>>
>
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