August 23, 2005
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High Concept*
“Concept (scholastics’ verbum mentis)–
theological analogy of Son’s procession
as Verbum Patris, 111-12″
– index to Joyce and Aquinas,
by William T. Noon, S.J.,
Yale University Press 1957,
second printing 1963, page 162“So did God cause the big bang? Overcome by metaphysical lassitude, I finally reach over to my bookshelf for The Devil’s Bible.
Turning to Genesis I read: ‘In the beginning there was nothing. And God
said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was still nothing, but now you
could see it.’”– Jim Holt, Big-Bang Theology, Slate‘s “High Concept” departmentRelated material:
Nothing Ventured,
The God-Shaped Hole, and
Is Nothing Sacred?* See also John
O’Callaghan, Thomistic Realism and the Linguistic Turn: Toward a More
Perfect Form of Existence,
(University of Notre Dame Press, 2003) and Joshua P. Hochschild, “Does
Mental Language Imply Mental Representationalism? The Case of Aquinas’s
Verbum Mentis,” Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, Volume 4, 2004 (pdf), pp. 12-17.
