Dust Bound for Heaven: Explorations in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas

by Reinhard Hütter

In Dust Bound for Heaven Reinhard H tter shows how Thomas Aquinas's view of the human being as dust bound for heaven weaves together elements of two questions without fusion or reduction. Does humanity still have an insatiable thirst for God that sends each person on an irrepressible religious quest that only the vision of God can quench? Or must the human being, living after the fall, become a "new creation" in order to be readied for heaven?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802867413
• ISBN13: 9780802867414
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 521 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"