... and Aquinas appealed to three principles in addressing the literary passages—containment, attraction, and manifestation—all of which interrelate different parts of the universe in terms of parallelism, hierarchy, and causality. allegoria and allegorical interpretation anagogia and anagogical interpretation...

...The only extended narrative in Thomas Aquinas’s Summa theologiae comes in Part 3 when he combines the Gospel narratives about the life of Jesus. He tests all the main features or episodes of the story to see what they show about God’s manifestation humankind. So, for example, he...

...This chapter examines the concept of figuration and the enigma of manifestation in the works of Martin Heidegger. It states that Heidegger's detour through Friedrich's poetry has left the project of “overcoming of aesthetics” in disarray and opened the path to a “step back” from metaphysics...