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Aug 24, 2024 · St. Augustine - Christian Doctrine, Philosophy, Bishop: De doctrina christiana (Books I–III, 396/397, Book IV, 426; Christian Doctrine) was begun in the first years of Augustine’s episcopacy but finished 30 years later. This imitation of Cicero’s Orator for Christian purposes sets out a theory of the interpretation of Scripture and offers practical guidance to the would-be preacher. It ...
3 days ago · A 1989–1992 survey of young people of the 15 to 25 age group (81% of whom were Catholics, 84% were younger than 19, and 62% were male) chiefly from the United States, but also from Austria, Canada, Ecuador, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Peru, Spain and Switzerland, found that 36.9% affirmed that, "The Pope has the authority to speak ...
6 days ago · Thomas Aquinas responded by writing his monumental summas in support of human reason as compatible with faith. [57] Christian theology adapted to Aristotle's secular and humanistic natural philosophy. [58] By the Late Middle Ages, Aquinas's rationalism was being heatedly debated in the new universities. [59]
3 days ago · The Desert Fathers were early monastics living in the Egyptian desert. Although they did not write as much as other Church Fathers, their influence was also great, and they are credited with beginning the practice of monasticism, and codifying many of its features. Among them are Paul of Thebes, Anthony the Great and Pachomius.
Sep 11, 2024 · Education - Thomism, Philosophy, Pedagogy: In the long view, the greatest educational and philosophical influence of the age was St. Thomas Aquinas, who in the 13th century made a monumental attempt to reconcile the two great streams of the Western tradition. In his teaching at the University of Paris and in his writings—particularly the Summa theologiae and the Summa contra gentiles ...
6 days ago · St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1224/25–1274) propounded an influential systematization, maintaining that, though the eternal law of divine reason is unknowable to us in its perfection as it exists in God’s mind, it is known to us in part not only by revelation but also by the operations of our reason.
17 hours ago · F rom the beginning of Christianity, the Eucharist had always been considered in relation to the Church. The “communion of the body of Christ” of which St. Paul spoke to the faithful of Corinth was their mysterious union with the community, by virtue of the sacrament: it was the mystery of one Body formed by all those who shared in the “one Bread.”
