title: What does God know? Treatise on the “divine knowledge” in the structure of natural theology by Francisco Suárez
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metadata.value: Ivanov, Vitaly L.
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metadata.value: 2022-09-26T10:59:07Z
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metadata.value: 2022-09-26T10:59:07Z
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metadata.value: 2022-09
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metadata.value: Ivanov V. L. What does God know? Treatise on the “divine knowledge” in the structure of natural theology by Francisco Suárez. Issues of Theology, 2022, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 408–441.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu28.2022.305
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37897
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metadata.value: The article is a study of the late scholastic concept of natural theology based on
  the works of Fr. Suárez, Metaphysical Disputations (1597) and De Deo Uno et Trino
  (1607), as well as the analysis of the treatise on “divine knowledge” and the demonstration
  of its significance in the structure of Suárez’s natural theology. First, the
  article explicates the concept of natural theology as the highest and most noble
  part of metaphysical science, since the natural theology of Suárez differs both from
  supernatural or revelation theology, and from the whole metaphysical knowledge
  about being. Second, the thematic content of natural theology is described
  in comparison with revelation theology, and the general method of natural theology,
  which is determined by the specific limitations of the natural knowledge
  of God in this life, is analyzed. At the same time, the most important role of the
  traditional scholastic concept of “perfectio simpliciter” as revealing the essence of
  Suárez’s method in natural theology is emphasized. Third, we point out the reasons
  for the special significance of the treatise on the “divine knowledge/scientia Dei”
  contained in section 15 of Suárez’s 30th Metaphysical disputation, and analyze the
  structure of this treatise, showing how Suárez’s exposition in it corresponds to the
  general “rule of method”. Fourth, the article thematizes the question of the objects
  of knowledge of the divine intellect, explains the general division of objects into
  three classes and explicates the complex type of connection between the cognition
  of the primary and secondary objects of the divine intellect, since it determines the
  way God knows finite possible things “in themselves”. Finally, we show a certain
  ambivalence in Suárez’s understanding of the reality and objectivity of the objective
  being (esse obiectivum) of possible finite essences as a secondary object that
  terminates divine knowledge.
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metadata.value: The article was written with the support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research
  (RFBR), project No. 21-011-44040 “The Philosophical Theology of Francisco Suárez”.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Issues of Theology;Volume 4; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: natural theology of Francisco Suárez
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: revelation theology
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the method of theology
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: treatise on the divine knowledge
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the objects of divine knowledge
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: esse obiectivum and esse reale
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: What does God know? Treatise on the “divine knowledge” in the structure of natural theology by Francisco Suárez
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metadata.value: Article
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