The nature of being: a thomistic perspective related to health and healing

This study explores the coherence between postmodern perspectives on holistic health and healing and Thomas Aquinas' theory of the nature of being. It elucidates Aquinas' account of the nature of being as encompassing the being of God as act (willing), as goodness and as love; the being of...

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