Search results
May 15, 2024 · Reframing Providence: New Perspectives from Aquinas on the Divine Action Debate. by Simon Maria Kopf, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023, xiv + 306 pp., $82.66, ISBN 978-0192874986.
May 8, 2024 · Even the purist Thomist does not claim Aquinas is without error; Roman Catholics must disagree with Aquinas on the points of doctrine which conflict with current church dogma. The thorough precision of his arguments provides a springboard for further thought through contemplation, discussion, and debate.
Apr 29, 2024 · By reexamining the roots of Aquinas’s arguments for God, this study challenges both the claims that natural law simply assumes the existence of a creative God and that the foundations of natural law are incompatible or wholly separate from a dialectic.
May 2, 2024 · God is totally free; so his love is a totally free gift, entirely undeserved by us. St Thomas caps the point by saying that ‘mercy…is a certain fulness of justice ( quaedam iustitiae plenitudo )’, and he quotes James 2:13: ‘mercy triumphs over justice’.
Apr 29, 2024 · So maybe univocity isn’t so bad. But does Scotus ruin it all by going mushy on simplicity? Only if Aquinas does. Aquinas confronts the mystery of the diversity of attributes in the simplicity of the divine essence and posits a type of distinction that is so to speak tighter than a real distinction, but more real than a mere mental distinction.
May 1, 2024 · He was immediately struck by how helpful they were, along with how well they defended the work of St. Thomas Aquinas. Cardinal Cajetan’s commentary on St. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae: Prima Pars was used by scholars for 500 years but was never translated from its original Latin. In the 20th century, the scholastic culture in Latin ...
Apr 26, 2024 · A Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, an eloquent speaker, arrived in Ephesus. He was an authority on the Scriptures. He had been instructed in the Way of the Lord and, with ardent spirit ...
