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    Aquinas (ST I, Q.12) argues that the intellect can know G... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Human life cannot get close to the life that truly is (divine being).

    Aquinas (ST I, Q.12) argues that the intellect can know God through the lumen gloriae, achieving real cognitive participation in divine being.

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    • 1.Creatures need supernatural elevation to reach God's transcendent nature; lumen gloriae provides necessary ontological bridge.
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    • 2.Direct beatific vision requires transformed cognitive capacities; lumen gloriae explains how finite intellect participates in infinite being.
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    • 3.Thomas's analogy with natural light illuminating objects parallels how lumen gloriae actualizes intellect's latent capacity for divine knowledge.
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    • 1.Positing lumen gloriae as intermediate between knower and God potentially obscures rather than clarifies how direct knowledge occurs.
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    • 2.If lumen gloriae mediates divine knowledge, it's unclear whether intellect knows God or merely the glorified light, creating regress problem.
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    • 3.Aquinas's doctrine of God as actus purus suggests God's intelligibility is self-presenting; additional cognitive apparatus seems superfluous.
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    Aquinas's doctrine of God as actus purus suggests God's intelligibility is self-...Creatures need supernatural elevation to reach God's transcendent nature; lumen ...Direct beatific vision requires transformed cognitive capacities; lumen gloriae ...Human life cannot get close to the life that truly is (divine being).
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