Friday, March 29, 2013

"we must never avert our eyes from those elements in [Christianity] which seem puzzling or repellent"

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"If Christianity could tell me no more of the far-off land than my own temperament led me to surmise already, then Christianity would b...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

"God is said not to be in the same genus as other . . . things, not because he is in another genus, but because he is outside any genus".

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"God is said not to be in the same genus as other . . . things, not because he is in another genus, but because he is outside any genus...
Monday, March 25, 2013

"catch[ing] up, by the laborious path of learning and argument acquired by study, to the wisdom the unlettered charwoman already possesses as a free gift of God."

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"The theological master simply strives to make explicit, to recapture in modo cognitionis, what the faithful heart of any old woman alr...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

The good is diffusive of itself in the way in which an end moves

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"the good is said to be diffusive of its being [(lit. of itself)] in the way in which the end is said to move [(bonum dicitur diffusivu...
Monday, March 11, 2013

Galileo, loyal Catholic?

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“To the Protestants he was yet another image of the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church, which was not a role that he liked to play; h...
Saturday, March 2, 2013

A birthday prayer (8th century)

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O God, life of the faithful, savior and guardian of those who fear you, who have deigned to lead your servant N. to this day of his natural...
Friday, March 1, 2013

"the proper attitude with respect to death"

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"The tristitia theme belongs . . . to the most beautiful [of] expositions in the [treatise on] Christology of Thomas. . . . Christ wan...