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Aquinas Lecture by Elenore Stump, Ph.D.

It’s excellent to see that there is more and more prominent thomists’ videos are being hosted publicly in areas such as YouTube. Here we have a  ”2009 Aquinas Lecture, Desires of the Heart: Finding True Fulfillment, … delivered January 25, 2009, by the internationally renowned Thomist, Elenore Stump, Ph.D.”  

In Our Time: St Thomas Aquinas

Melvyn Bragg discusses the life, works and enduring influence of the medieval philosopher and theologian St Thomas Aquinas with Martin Palmer, John Haldane and Annabel Brett.

Aquinas and Sacred Teaching

James Miguez over at the Thomism list on Yahoo posted an excellent article on Aquinas’ view on why Christ, the living revelation, never wrote this revelation down. Aquinas understood himself to be a “Catholicae veritatis doctor,” (preface, STh I) that is a teacher or doctor of Catholic truth. This truth is founded upon the teaching…

Does believing the gospel save us?

I don’t think that believing the gospel saves us. Let me s’plain as Ricky Ricardo would have said.   Belief can be understood epistemologically (head) or volitionally (heart).   Belief (1): Epistemologically, belief is not sufficient for salvation   (e.g., the demons believe in God in this sense. James 2:19).   A person can believe that the…