Intro
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1. Four Apparent Problems Concerning Eternal Life
1. Contemporary Philosophy and Theology and Two Problems concerning the Nature of Heaven
2. Contemporary Philosophy and Theology and a Third Problem concerning the Nature of Heaven
3. Contemporary Philosophy and Theology and the Problem of the Tedium of (Heavenly) Immortality
Part 2. St. Thomas on the Essential Reward in Heaven
4. Human beatitudo in Heaven
5. The Essential Reward I: The Essential Characteristics of the Beatific Vision
6. The Essential Reward II: The Primary and Secondary Objects of the Beatific Vision
7. The Essential Reward III: The Beatific Vision as Participation in God's Eternal Life
8. The Essential Reward IV: The Proper Accidents of the Beatific Vision
Part 3. St. Thomas on the Accidental Reward in Heaven
9. The Accidental Reward I: The Relative Importance of Embodiment for Human Happiness in Heaven
10. The Accidental Reward II: Resurrection Bodies
11. The Accidental Reward III: Glorified Bodies
12. The Accidental Reward IV: The Communion of the Saints, the Aureoles, and the Fruits
13. The Accidental Reward V: Nonhuman Material Beings in Heaven
Part 4. Thomistic Solutions to Four Apparent Problems Concerning Eternal Life
14. A Thomistic Solution to PNH-I: The Goods of the Beatific Vision and the City of God, Rightly Ordered
15. A Thomistic Solution to PNH-II: Transfigured Human Embodiment
16. A Thomistic Solution to PNH-III: Heaven as Perfectly Dynamic
17. A Thomistic Solution to the Problem of the Tedium of Heavenly Immortality
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Scriptural Index
General Index