Philosophical concept
Beatific vision
Beatific vision names, in Aquinas’s theology, the intellect’s ultimate fulfilment in direct knowledge of God, not an ordinary experience that can be guaranteed.
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Beatific vision names, in Aquinas’s theology, the intellect’s ultimate fulfilment in direct knowledge of God, not an ordinary experience that can be guaranteed.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 23,323 passages across 1 works, including Summa Theologiae. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
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Works where the concept is identified
- Summa TheologiaeThomas Aquinas · 23,323 passages