"Active and Passive Potency" in Thomistic Angelology

About the Book

“A direct textual study of an important sector of St. Thomas is made by H. P. Kainz, ‘Actice and Passive Potency’ in Thomistic Angelology. Angelology both explicates and tests some Thomistic principles and also serves projectively to work out problems on human ideals, value, and social ordering.”

“The author first raises the question whether St. Thomas’ treatise on the angels is philosophical rather than theological in its outlook. He offers a number of valuable observations on the sources and scope of Thomistic angelology. The author shows a good grasp of the problems involved.”

About the Author

Howard Kainz is Professor Emeritus at Marquette University, Milwaukee. He was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for 1977-1978, and Fulbright fellowships in Germany for 1980-1981 and 1987-1988. His major publications include Paradox, Dialectic and System (a988), Democracy and the Kingdom of God (1993), and The Existence of God and the Faith-Instinct (2010).