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A survey of John 's 'sending' and 'coming' vocabulary and a review of the main ideas of its prologue (1:1-18) shed light on our understanding of Jesus' mission on earth. At the same time, this information elicits some reflections on the mission of the contemporary church. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this essay, I examine Thomas Aquinas's doctrine of the light of glory (lumen gloriae). I begin by describing the function of the lumen gloriae in Aquinas's account of cognition and his broader teaching, thereby indicating what is at stake in the success of this doctrine (section two); then I attempt to solve two difficult problems that arise from Aquinas's teaching on the light of glory (sections three and four). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]