Angelology and Demonology of St Thomas Aquinas WT-SSTA-AED

STL_W01 - student obtains the knowledge about angelology and its specific features as a part of dogmatic theology. The course will include the nature, function and actions of both good angels and demons.
STL_W03 - student gains the knowledge about specific character and methodology of angelology as the theology of intermediate beings.
TMA_U06 - Nowadays especially the actions of demons are a subject of the vivid discussion especially in the context of exorcist activities, the goal of the course is also to have an ability to make use of this knowledge by proper argumentation in discussions, and also rational and competent presentation of the demonic activities in various occasions of the Church teaching.

For mark: very good
STL_W01 - student has excellent knowledge about nature of angels, their actions towards material beings, sin of angels, action of guardian angels and demons.
STL_W03 - student understands perfectly specific character and methodology of angelology as the theology of beings which are purely spiritual, which being lesser than God are also much more perfect than human being.
TMA_U06 - students has excellent ability to make use of obtained knowledge especially in arguing on the extent and capacity of the action of demons on humans.
For mark: good
STL_W01 - student has good knowledge about nature of angels, their actions towards material beings, sin of angels, action of guardian angels and demons.
STL_W03 - student understands well specific character and methodology of angelology as the theology of beings which are purely spiritual, which being lesser than God are also much more perfect than human being.
TMA_U06 - students has good ability to make use of obtained knowledge especially in arguing on the extent and capacity of the action of demons on humans.
For mark: sufficient
STL_W01 - student has basic knowledge about nature of angels, their actions towards material beings, sin of angels, action of guardian angels and demons.
STL_W03 - student bearly understands specific character and methodology of angelology as the theology of beings which are purely spiritual, which being lesser than God are also much more perfect than human being.
TMA_U06 - students has basic ability to make use of obtained knowledge especially in arguing on the extent and capacity of the action of demons on humans.

-St Thomas Aqinas, Summa Theologiae 1889, Ia q. 50-119 cum commentaris Caietani, http://archive.org/stream/operaomniaiussui5thom#page/n5/mode/2up
-St Thomas Aqinas, Tractatus de substantiis separatis. Treatise on Separate Substances: A Latin-English Edition of a Newly-Established Text Based on 12 Mediaeval Manuscripts, with Introduction and Notes, ed. by F. J. Lescoe, Publ. Saint Joseph College, West Hartford 1969.
-J. Collins, The Thomistic Philosophy of Angels, The Catholic University of America Press, Washington 1947.
-D. Keck, Angels and Angelology in the Middle Ages, Oxford University Press, New York-Oxford 1998.
-J. Torrell, Saint Thomas Aquinas, vol. 1: The Person and His Work, Catholic University of America Press, Washington 2005,.
-J.F. Wippel, Thomas Aquinas and the Condemnation of 1277, in The Modern Schoolman, 72, 2/3, pp. 233-272.
-A Companion to Angels in Medieval Philosophy, ed. Christopher M. Bellitto, Brill, Leiden 2012.
-T. Stepien, Aquinas against spiritual matter, Epekeina, vol. 6, n. 2 (2015), pp. 1-13. (http://www.ricercafilosofica.it/epekeina/index.php/epekeina/article/view/103)
-T. Stepien, Angel and the man’s dream of perfection. Remarks on benefits of studying an angelology of st. Thomas Aquinas, Metaphysics 2009 - Proceedings 4 th World Conference, Madrid 2011, s. 628-634.
-T. Stepien, Nowe ujęcie natury aniołów w metafizycznej angelologii św. Tomasza z Akwinu, STV (47) 2009 nr 2, s.167-182.
-T. Stepien, Niematerialny charakter poznania anielskiego w ujęciu św. Tomasza z Akwinu, Przegląd Tomistyczny, XXI (2015), s. 423-439.

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