Sens dosłowny i duchowy w świetle kwestii quodlibetalnych Tomasza z Akwinu

Sławomir Zatwardnicki

doi:10.21697/ct.2025.95.2.02

Published: 2025-04-30

Vol. 95 No. 2 (2025)

The Literal and Spiritual Senses in the Light of Thomas Aquinas’s Quodlibetal Questions

Sławomir Zatwardnicki

Collectanea Theologica

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https://doi.org/10.21697/ct.2025.95.2.02

Abstract

The aim of this article is to determine what the significance of the literal sense is in the work of Thomas Aquinas, and to examine the extent to which the thesis of the primacy of the literal sense, repeated after Aquinas’s theoretical statements, actually holds up. The research carried out in dialogue with the studies of contemporary scholars has primarily taken into account Thomas’s statements expressed in the sixth question of the seventh quodlibet, but the latter have been read against the broader background of the Angelic Doctor’s legacy, including his biblical commentaries and works that came after the quodlibet. They allow one to interpret the ambiguous statements recorded therein and to soften the thesis that Thomas was a purist interested mainly in the literal sense.

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Thomas Aquinas, quodlibetal questions, quodlibet VII, senses of Scripture, plurality of literal senses, word of God vs Word of God

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Zatwardnicki, S. (2025). The Literal and Spiritual Senses in the Light of Thomas Aquinas’s Quodlibetal Questions. Collectanea Theologica, 95(2), 265–316. https://doi.org/10.21697/ct.2025.95.2.02

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Sławomir Zatwardnicki

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Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Wrocław Poland

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Sławomir Zatwardnicki (PhD) – doctor of theology; Assistant Professor at the Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Wrocław; Secretary of the editorial office of “Wrocław Theological Review;” lecturer, publicist, author of many articles and eighteen books; member of the Society of Dogmatic Theologians in Poland and the Association of Fundamental Theologians in Poland; he is involved in evangelization and formation activities, responsible for one of the branches of the School of Christian Life and Evangelization of Saint Mary of Nazareth and Mother of the Church.