Thomas Aquinas and the Priesthood of all the Believers: Aquinas’ Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews

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  • Fáinche Ryan Trinity College Dublin

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https://doi.org/10.12775/BPTh.2016.025

Keywords

Hebrews, Priesthood, Christ, High Priesthood, anointing, holiness, divinisation

Abstract

Aquinas’ Commentary on Hebrews explores the theological understanding of the priesthood of Christ, who alone is the ‘true priest’. It as human, homo, that Christ is priest. One of the key insights of the Commentary is the way Aquinas relates Christ’s high priesthood and the priesthood of the mystical body, the Church. Aquinas is clear: all the baptised have a share in the priesthood of Christ, all are sealed with the Holy Spirit. The ecclesial implications of this anthropology still are to be fully realised.

References

Berceville G., Le sacerdoce du Christ dans l’Ad Hebraeos, Revue Thomiste 99 (1999), pp. 143-158.

Ryan L., Patristic Teaching on the Priesthood of the Faithful, Irish Theological Quarterly 1962, 29, pp. 25-51.

Super Epistolam B. Pauli ad Hebraeos lectura, accessed at http://www.corpusthomisticum.org (In Heb.).

Torrell J.P., St Thomas Aquinas. Volume 1 The Person and his Work, Washington 1996.

Weinandy T.G., The Supremacy of Christ in the Letter to the Hebrews, in: Aquinas on Scripture: An Introduction to his Biblical Commentaries, ed. Daniel A. Keating and John Yocum. (London T&T Clark/Continuum, 2005), pp. 223-244.

Biblica et Patristica Thoruniensia

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2017-02-10

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RYAN, Fáinche. Thomas Aquinas and the Priesthood of all the Believers: Aquinas’ Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews. Biblica et Patristica Thoruniensia. Online. 10 February 2017. Vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 133-148. [Accessed 1 March 2026]. DOI 10.12775/BPTh.2016.025.

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Vol. 9 No. 3 (2016): Biblical Thomism II

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