Aquinas' anthropology leads toward a theology of incarnation - it is the incarnation which is the benefit from God that incites hope (20.4.obj and ad3) and love (82) and even faith - as that disputed question where Christ, as the first truth, was recognizable by human beings. For the purposes of my work, it will be the theology that highlights the anthropology, if I do other things later on, it will probably be the opposite focus.
A word here myself - in reading hope (20.4) and not esteeming something to be arduous or not esteeming something to be great - and acedia and despair - this is just really interesting because I remember clearly saying I wanted to know why the Fathers were so excited about Christianity and it was one of my partially expressed "projects" to find out - which got kind of subsumed under the major project of letting go - which I deliberately undertook, prior to any sadnesses, as an act of faith - I can't guarantee it all the way through, of course! but I confide in God's mercy. we can't be judges of ourselves just as we can't be judges of another, whether for ill or even really for positive - as I and a friend recently found out together.
here I'm sure there would be distinctions - acedia is a malaise - it is not a simple absence - it has the "character" character or at least the deliberate and weighed and assumed character. sometimes we are just thick, perhaps? God I can't judge these things - please give me wisdom as to whether I am foolishly trying or whether I should look to you for illumination. it seems to me here that I would be making judgments on the interiors of the soul which I am not capable of doing even for myself.
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