Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Aquinas on the historicity of the natural law

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"According to the Philosopher ( Ethic. vii) 'human nature is not unchangeable as the Divine nature is.' Hence things that are o...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

"The beauty of inflexibility"

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Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge "these sometimes murderous divisions were not the symptoms of a movement without coherent ...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

"Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it."

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"Well, toward morning the conversation turned on the Eucharist, which I, being the Catholic, was obviously supposed to defend.  Mrs. Br...
Sunday, June 2, 2013

"'in the name of Christ is implied he that anoints, he that is anointed, and the unction itself with which he is anointed'—i.e., the threefold God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit".

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     Douglas Farrow, Ascension and ecclesia:  on the significance of the doctrine of the ascension for ecclesiology and Christian cosmology ...

Love, the greatest of the theological virtues, is the subject of them as well. It is love that believes, love that hopes.

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Ἡ ἀγάπη. . . . πάντα πιστεύει, πάντα ἐλπίζει. . . . Νυνὶ δὲ μένει πίστις, ἐλπίς, ἀγάπη, τὰ τρία ταῦτα· μείζων δὲ τούτων ἡ ἀγάπη.      1 Co...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

The "Adoro te devote" should really be called the "Te devote laudo". So not "Hidden God, devoutly I adore thee," but rather (to but modify the one translation) "Hidden God, devoutly I do praise thee".

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     According to Robert Wielockx, in "Adoro te deuote:   zur Lösung einer alten Crux," Annales theologici:  revista internazional...
Monday, May 27, 2013

"It is therefore the worship of God alone that renders them superior [to the beasts], through which alone one is assisted to immortality."

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"[It] is therefore the worship of God alone that renders them superior, through which alone one is assisted [(i.e. aspired)]  to immort...