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2 days ago · Selections from Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on Romans. Translated by Stephen Fowl in The Theological Interpretation of Scripture: Classic and Contemporary Readings , pp. 325 - 335 (Stacks, BS543 .T48 1997).
3 days ago · Aristotle’s thought had a profound impact on generations of medieval scholars and was crucial for the greatest of the medieval Christian thinkers, St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–74).
3 days ago · Prudence is “right reason in action,” writes St. Thomas Aquinas, following Aristotle. 67 It is not to be confused with timidity or fear, nor with duplicity or dissimulation. 1807 – Justice is the moral virtue that consists in the constant and firm will to give their due to God and neighbor.
5 days ago · In the Bible, St. Paul uses the phrases: "the hope of salvation" [1 Thess 5:8] or "hope of eternal life" [Titus 1:2; 3:7]. If we were assured of heaven, then there would be no need...
6 days ago · In one instance, Jesus spoke to Saint Thomas Aquinas from a crucifix in his priory’s chapel after he completed one of his writings on the Eucharist. Saint Thomas then felt he no longer needed to write.
4 days ago · The Prayer to Saint Thomas Aquinas for Purity. Dear Jesus, I know that every perfect gift, and especially that of chastity, depends on the power of Your providence. Without You, a mere creature can do nothing. Therefore, I beg You to defend, by Your grace, the chastity and purity of my body and soul. And if I have ever sensed or imagined anything
2 days ago · Happiness in life, therefore, includes the virtues, and Aristotle adds that it would include self-sufficiency (autarkeia)—not the self-sufficiency of a hermit, but of someone with a family, friends, and community—someone whose eudaimonia leaves them satisfied, lacking nothing.
