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3 days ago · Robin Franssen, 18, of Belgium, is a first-year philosophy student at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas.(Photo: Bénédicte Cedergren/EWTN) “I knew that I wanted to study something that had to do with my faith,” Robin Franssen, 18, a first-year philosophy student at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, told ...
1 day ago · But there were a number of prominent, even catholic, theological critics of Thomas Aquinas in the 20th century who made a case that ran something like this. Aquinas has a section of his summa on the Trinity that's in the first part, and he has a section of the summa on Christology that's the third part of the summa, the tertia pars.
4 days ago · Donald DeMarco, August 18, 2022. The philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas is highly systematic, profound, mystical and elaborate, and was recorded in the 13th century. In a word, it is “formidable.”. And yet, Aquinas is the master par excellence of common sense. His philosophy has a remarkable affinity with the human mind and the organs of ...
3 days ago · Saint Thomas Aquinas is one of the greatest theologians of all time. He wrote “ Summa Theologica ,” a compilation of all the Church’s teachings, which contains thousands of pages. The saint composed proofs for the existence of God.
1 day ago · But as a Protestant himself Dolezal models a better way. Looking not only to Aquinas but to the Reformed Scholastics before him, Dolezal encourages Protestants today to return to the insights of that perennial philosophy called realism. You can also listen to part 1 of this colloquy. Or watch a video of this colloquy. These Credo Colloquies ...
5 days ago · Mentions of Aquinas in An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews, Vol. 4. Aquinas is cited here as stating that Hebrews 4:16 means the throne of Christ. Owen says that this is a “woeful mistake” that Thomas and others have fallen into when they did not consult the original but relied upon the Vulgate translation.
1 day ago · Footnote 25 Notably, the ethics-theory distinction was invoked to argue that even Thomas Aquinas, the most well-known representative of the medieval virtue tradition, “cannot be considered a virtue ethicist.” According to Justin Anderson, Thomists have too readily assumed “that Aquinas has a virtue ethic because he writes so much about ...
