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Piotr Jaroszynski, Beauty and Being: Thomistic Perspectives

Product Description This book represents an attempt to distinguish and define what beauty is in metaphysical terms, to arrive at a better understanding of beauty as a transcendental property of being, and to establish beauty’s place in philosophy alongside truth and the good through an exploration of whether there can truly be a philosophy of…

New Book: The Logic of Desire – Aquinas on Emotion

Nicholas E. Lombardo , O.P. The Logic of Desire Aquinas on Emotion http://cuapress.cua.edu/BOOKS/viewbook.cfm?Book=lold When Thomas Aquinas completed his Treatise on the Passions, it was likely the longest sustained discussion of the emotions ever written. His influence on medieval and early modern philosophy was enormous, overshadowing every other medieval author on the topic of emotion. Although…

Quote of the Day -Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange

Ours is but a borrowed existence, freely given us by God, and He keeps us in existence because indeed He wills it so. Ours is but a goodness in which there is so much infirmity and even degradation; there is so much error in our knowledge. This thought, while serving to make us humble, brings…

Prof. Ralph McInerny on St. Thomas Aquinas.

Prof. Ralph McInerny on St. Thomas Aquinas Enjoy! Here is an update from this site on McInerny’s state of health: Dear Friends: Ralph’s condition is not good, but it is far better than rumors have had it. He is in ICU at the new St. Joseph Medical Center in Mishawaka, on oxygen and an intravenous…

AQUINAS VIEW OF MARRIAGE

There is always a tendency to ask in modern circles what St. Thomas Aquinas would say in regards to a certain topic; for example, the A and B theory of time.[1] The answer to that question would be nothing because in Aquinas’ time there was no such thing as an A and B theory of time. Similarly, Aquinas did not write extensively on the topic of marriage. Nevertheless, I want to sketch out an overview of Aquinas’ view of marriage with what he did write.

Excerpt: Third Article: Whether In Christ There Was Faith

CHRIST THE SAVIOR Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange A Study of the Third Part of The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas The general opinion of theologians is that Christ did not have faith. Such is theopinion of St. Thomas. The reason given in the counterargument does not absolutely prove this assertion, for the words of Peter quoted here,…