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Jacob and Moses) and in the next. , John I: 18) had been a part of Christian mysticism since the second century. In light of the crisis in the 1240s concerning how to understand the beatific vision, Albert undertook to work out his own answer to this seeming contradiction. [o·face vision but also the question of whether such vision involves any intermediary'· Once again, Albert agrees with the 1241 decision that the bare and pure intellect will see the bare essence of God in heaven. In order to understand this properly, however, it is necessary to introduce important distinctions about the different ways of understanding the terms fories dei and medium The expression "face of God" can be used in three ways, according to Albert.
III' Like Albert, Thomas used the traditional distinction between knowing quid est (knowing what something is) and knOWing quia est (knowing that something is), but in his own way. True to his strategy of turning Aristotle on his head to serve Christian theology, Aquinas adopted an understanding of quia est knowledge that enabled him to affirm the possibility of proving God's existence from creatures while maintaining that quid es4 or compre· hensive knowledge of the divine essence, can never be attained, even in heaven.
M In a. 3 Aquinas says that because the human mind knows by way of process, the contemplative life reaches its perfection and gains its unity from the non discursive consideration of truth itself, but it attains this goal through many acts that come from both within and without the con· templative subject In a. 4 he notes that eontemplatio pertains principally to the consideration of divine truth, but in a secondary and dispositive way it includes everything ordered to this: moral virtues (see a.