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Saturday, January 30, 2010
Aquinas on the Angst of the philosophers
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"Alexander and Averroes laid it down that the final happiness of man is not in such knowledge as is possible to man through the specula...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Pesch on the only satisfactory answer to "the question of meaning"
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“this God does not want ‘to enjoy’ ( frui! ) his own beatitude [( beatitudo )] without us”. Otto Hermann Pesch, “Das Streben nach der beat...
Monday, January 25, 2010
Arnold on intimations of antiquity
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"These are no medieval personages; they belong to an older, pagan, mythological world. The very first thing that strikes one, in readi...
Sunday, January 24, 2010
White on the Incarnation
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"only because of the uniqueness of the form of causality that is proper to God as Creator is he alone free to 'become' human, t...
Another of the well-known Thomistic asymmetries
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"Although it may be admitted that creatures are in some sort [(aliquo modo)] like God, it must in no way [(nullo . . . modo)] be admitt...
Not even among creatures can the predication of being &/ causality be univocal
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"The most important and most problematic of the characterizations of Thomism concerns the third point immediately mentioned above: the...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Aquinas on 1 Cor 1:17-2:16
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"In order that the whole of faith not be attributed to human power and wisdom but to God, God willed that the primitive teaching of the...
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