Aquinas and the unity of Christ: a defence of compositionalism |
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Authors: | Jonathan Hill |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA |
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Abstract: | Thomas Aquinas is often thought to present a compositionalist model of the incarnation, according to which Christ is a composite
of a divine nature and a human nature, understood as concrete particulars. But he sometimes seems to hedge away from this
model when insisting on the unity of Christ. I argue that if we interpret some of his texts on the assumption of straightforward
compositionalism, we can construct a defence of Christ’s unity within that context. This defence involves the claim that the
divine unity is so great, and the relation between Christ’s two natures so unusual, that the divine unity can be transferred
to the composite Christ as a “borrowed property”. |
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