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HOPE, A MODE OF FAITH: AQUINAS, LUTHER AND BENEDICT XVI ON HEBREWS 11:1
Author(s) -
COOPER ADAM G.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the heythrop journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.127
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1468-2265
pISSN - 0018-1196
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2265.2008.00461.x
Subject(s) - hebrews , faith , philosophy , predestination , theology , interpretation (philosophy) , reinterpretation , virtue , objectivity (philosophy) , epistemology , religious studies , aesthetics , linguistics
In articulating a theological account of Christian hope faithful to its objective character, Pope Benedict XVI summons the authority of Thomas Aquinas, citing his comments on faith and hope as those terms occur in Hebrews 11:1. Benedict sets off Aquinas's understanding of hope‐filled faith's objectivity by placing it in contrast with Luther's apparently more subjective interpretation of faith in Hebrews 11:1 as conviction. Closer analysis of both Aquinas and Luther, however, suggests a greater overlap in their exegetical conclusions, opening the way for a more nuanced appreciation of a virtue whose living possession and exercise, as the rest of Spe Salvi confirms, involves both objective and subjective dimensions