Friday, July 5, 2019

"Whenever it has appeared as an organized movement in modern times, atheism has always allied itself with pseudo-science."

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     John Gray, Seven types of atheism (New York:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018), 14.  Gray himself:  "repelled by the first five va...

Theology as "enjoy[ing] a real epistemological transcendence by relation to the philosophies that it utilizes"

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"Christian theology, as St. Thomas Aquinas understands and practices it, is not philosophy [as] applied to religious questions.  It h...

"The angel Gabriel is distinguished from the angel Raphael as horses are distinguished from lions, and not as Bucephalus is distinguished from Rocinante."

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     Serge Thomas Bonino, "Aristotélisme et angélologie chez Saint Thomas d'Aquin," Bulletin de littérature ecclésiastique 1...

"beatitude does not destroy nature, since it is its perfection."

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"beatitudo non tollit naturam; cum sit perfectio eius."      St. Thomas Aquinas, ST I.62 ("The perfection of the angels in...
Thursday, July 4, 2019

Can "an act of speech or expression . . . be [any longer] offensive in principle"?

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     "The "notion of religion, purged of any standards of moral judgment, contains a flaw that destroys it from within. . . . .  I...
Wednesday, July 3, 2019

The apostle of love is also the apostle of the truth

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"in the events of the world but also in the weaknesses of the Church, there is always a risk of losing faith, hence, also love and brot...

2 John 9 read in the light of contemporary theological "progressivism"

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"Anyone who is so 'progressive' [( Πᾶς ὁ προάγων )] as not to remain in the teaching of the Christ [( καὶ μὴ μένων ἐν τῇ διδαχ...