TY - BOOK AU - Sammon,Brendan Thomas TI - The God who is beauty: beauty as a divine name in Thomas Aquinas and Dionysius the Areopagite T2 - Princeton theological monograph series SN - 9780227902219 AV - BT40 .S36 2013 U1 - 230.01 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Eugene, Oregon PB - Pickwick Publications KW - Pseudo-Dionysius, KW - Thomas, KW - Aesthetics KW - Early works to 1800 KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - God KW - Beauty KW - Name KW - History of doctrines KW - Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite KW - Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 KW - RELIGION KW - Christian Theology KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-387) and index; Beauty and the divine in ancient Greek philosophy: Plato and Aristotle -- Beauty and the divine in Neoplatonism: Plotinus and Proclus -- The tradition of the divine names -- Beauty as a divine name in Dionysius the Areopagite I: beauty as transcendent plenitude -- Beauty as a divine name in Dionysius the Areopagite II: beauty as a principle of determination / Beauty and the one -- The passage of Dionysius into the Latin West -- The journey of beauty as a divine name: from the sixth to the thirteenth century -- Beauty as a divine name in Albert the Great -- Thomas Aquinas and the tradition of the divine names -- Beauty as a divine name in Thomas Aquinas: In de divinis nominibus expositio -- Beauty as a divine name in Thomas Aquinas: beyond the commentary on the divine names -- Conclusion. Beauty as the between N2 - In the beginning was beauty, and beauty was with God, and beauty was God. If the tradition of divine names, that (in its Christian form) originates with Dionysius the Areopagite and includes among its ranks Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, and others, is correct in identifying God with the name beauty, then repurposing the Prologue to John's Gospel in this way seems hardly controversial. For if beauty is a divine name then not only is it fitting to say God is beautiful, but it is equally fitting to say that God is beauty itself. However, like most arguments from fittingness-that is to say, ar UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=852853 ER -