Towards A Biblical Thomism Thomas Aquinas and the Renewal of Biblical Theology Towards A Biblical Thomism Thomas Aquinas and the Renewal of Biblical Theology Edited by Piotr Roszak Jörgen Vijgen EDICIONES UNIVERSIDAD DE NAVARRA, S.A. PAMPLONA First edition: 2018 © 2018. Piotr Roszak and Jörgen Vijgen (eds.) Ediciones Universidad de Navarra, S.A. (EUNSA) Campus Universitario • Universidad de Navarra • 31009 Pamplona • España +34 948 25 68 50 - Fax: +34 948 25 68 54 [email protected] ISBN: 978-84-313-xxxx-x Depósito legal: NA xxxxx-2018 This book uses information gathered through the grant “Identity and Tradition. The Patristic Sources of Thomas Aquinas’ Thought” (2017-2020) funded from resources of the National Science Center (NCN) in Poland, allotted following the decision no. DEC - 2016/23/B/ HS1/02679. Index: Karolina Iwan Portrait: Krzysztof Skrzypczyk Printed in Spain - Impreso en España Table of Contents Acknowledgments ............................................................................................................ 9 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 11 Part 1 HEURISTIC TOOLS Anthony Giambrone, O.P. The Prologues to Aquinas’ Commentaries on the Letters of St. Paul ............................. 23 Randall Smith Thomas Aquinas’ Principium at Paris ................................................................................. 39 Michał Mrozek, O.P. The Use of Scripture in Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae I-II, qq. 49-70 .............................. 61 Part 2 CHRIST Piotr Roszak Judge of the Living and of the Dead. Aquinas on Christ’s Power to Judge in his Biblical Commentaries ........................................................................................................... 99 Mateusz Przanowski, O.P. Formam servi accipiens (Phil 2:7) or Plenus gratiae et veritatis (Jn 1:14)? The apparent dilemma in Aquinas’ exegesis .................................................................................. 119 Part 3 THE MORAL LIFE Michael Sherwin, O.P. Love in Thomas Aquinas’ Biblical Commentaries: A Sketch ........................................... 137 Enrique Alarcόn Aquinas’ Harmonization of Evangelical Morality and Philosophical Ethics ................. 153 8 Towards A Biblical Thomism Cajetan Cuddy, O.P. Thomas Aquinas on the Bible and Morality: The Sacred Scriptures, the Natural Law, and the Hermeneutic of Continuity ....................................................................... 173 Paul M. Rogers Prophecy and the Moral Life in Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on 1 Corinthians ... 197 Jörgen Vijgen The Intelligibility of Aquinas’ Account of Marriage as remedium concupiscentiae in his Commentary on 1 Corinthians 7, 1-9 .................................................................... 219 Matthew Levering Aquinas on the Indissolubility of Marriage ....................................................................... 243 Contributors ...................................................................................................................... 273 Bibliography ....................................................................................................................... 275 Index ...................................................................................................................................... 291 Acknowledgments Our gratitude goes first to the contributors to this volume whose dedicated scholar- ship made this book possible. Most of the essays in this volume are revised versions of papers delivered at the international conference “Thomas Aquinas and the Re- newal of Biblical Theology” (April 24-26, 2017), sponsored by the Faculty of Theolo- gy of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland and the Thomistic Insti- tute in Warsaw. Without the support of the entire faculty and staff of these institutes the event would not have been possible. We would like to thank also Piotr Paweł Orlowski for his financial assistance and the entire Biblical Thomism Project in Toruń.