Liber locorum communium
Saturday, July 29, 2017
The road not taken
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"The new interest in nature was not a step outside of a religious outlook, even partially; it was a [subsequent] mutation within this o...
"to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power."
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"Detrahere ergo perfectioni creaturarum est detrahere perfectioni divinae virtutis." Thomas Aquinas, ScG lib. 3 cap. 69 ...
"our secular age has geographical and social as well as temporal boundaries."
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Charles Taylor, A secular age (Cambridge,MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2007), 59.
"a real promise of joy in God"
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"the [Christian] teaching of divine impassibility [is] not simply a limit placed upon our language, a pious refusal to attempt trespass...
Thursday, July 27, 2017
The more of God, the more of me
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Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study "Each actuality, in differing from God, testifies to the fullness of God's actuality. ...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Heidegger the onticologist
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"Heidegger was in error, and for the most surprising of reasons: because he, perhaps more than any other philosopher in Western though...
Saturday, July 22, 2017
"If they do not grow, they are not desires."
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Encyclopaedia Britannica "When our desires are not satisfied, they grow stronger, and becoming stronger they take hold of their obj...
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