Saturday, May 3, 2014

"the good is said to be diffusive of its being in the way the end is said to move."

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     "bonum dicitur diffusivum sui esse, eo modo quo finis dicitur movere."       Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae I.5.4.ad 2...
Friday, May 2, 2014

"in future the evidence of rewards will reverberate in the bodies of the saints"

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"You ought to consider that in future the marks of rewards [(indicia premiorum)] will reflect [(resultabunt, will reverberate, give off...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

"Anyone thinking seriously about it, then, must conclude that those who held that the world has always existed, but at the same time said that it was caused by God, are guilty of no conceptual incoherence. Those who detect this incoherence, therefore, must alone be men and wisdom must first have arisen with them!"

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"Et hoc etiam patet diligenter consideranti dictum eorum qui posuerunt mundum semper fuisse, quia nihilominus ponunt eum a Deo factum, ...
Monday, April 28, 2014

"in the same sense and the same meaning"

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"Certainly there is a need to seek out and to discover the most adequate formulation [(formula)] for universal and permanent moral norm...
Sunday, April 27, 2014

"He who would valiant be | 'gainst all disaster,..."

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John Bunyan, by Thomas Sadler (1684). National Portrait Gallery no. 1311 . Source: Wikimedia Commons . Dearmer's bowdlerization is ...

The "structural elements of man" (who is "one in body and soul") that are "permanent" on 1) the level of nature and 2) the even more fundamental (!) level of grace

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"To call into question the permanent structural elements of man which are connected with his own bodily dimension would not only confli...

"the body, which has been promised the resurrection," or: "You are not your own; you were bought with a price."

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"This moral theory does not correspond to the truth about man and his freedom. It contradicts the Church's teachings on the unity o...