Peters,
Eugene H. “Theology, Classical, and
Neo-Classical.” Euncouter 44
no. 1 (Winter 1983): 7-15.
Abstract
The
author identifies what is essential to neoclassical theology,
exemplified in the work of Whitehead and Hartshorne, and to classical theology,
as
exemplified in St Thomas.
Though
the two systems are very different, there are ways by which they can be
positively related. If God is known from the creatures (as St
Thomas says), the otherness of deity
cannot be so
unqualified as classical thinkers have maintained. On the other
hand, the mysteriousness of
God is perhaps deeper than neoclassical theologians have acknowledged
if God,
though the chief exemplification of the categories, is conceived as the
ground
of possibility, of order, and of intensity of feeling. [Abstract from ALTA]