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dc.contributor.advisorAllison, Gregg R.
dc.contributor.authorMajors, Tyler Daniel
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-03T21:04:45Z
dc.date.available2023-01-03T21:04:45Z
dc.date.issued2022-12-01
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10392/6970
dc.description.abstractThe intrinsic value of creatures is defensible on many accounts, though more rarely from a speculative, metaphysical, and theological perspective. In this thesis, I seek to establish and elaborate the connection between creaturely value and scholastic theology through the work of Thomas Aquinas. In chapter 1, I explicate the thesis and the methodology and build a case that Aquinas’s speculative, metaphysical, and theological clarification provide the substructure for creaturely value. In chapter 2, I argue that Aquinas’s vision of creation and inner trinitarian relations are mutual informing. In chapter 3, I explicate the ad intra processions of the Trinity as the origin and end of all created life. In chapter 4, I elucidate the relation between the processions of the Trinity ad intra and the procession of creatures ad extra. In chapter 5, I summarize my thesis and offer points of contact for future research. As such, according to Aquinas, the value of all creatures has a direct correlate in the eternal processions of the Trinity.en_US
dc.subject.lcshThomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274en_US
dc.subject.lcshCreation--History of doctrinesen_US
dc.subject.lcshHuman beings--Religious aspects--Christianityen_US
dc.titleToward Creaturely Value: God's Inner Processive Life and the Intrinsic Value of Creatures in Thomas Aquinasen_US
dc.typeElectronic thesisen_US
dc.typeText
dc.type.qualificationnameTh.M.en_US
dc.publisher.institutionSouthern Baptist Theological Seminaryen_US
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Theology


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