buy Gabapentin 100mg I still find Sullivan good on most topics beside religion, but his defense of religion as transcending tenet is worth a look. It contains the nugget “fundamentalism is rationalism in religion.” Moralism and rationalism don’t wash too well with a God conceived of as a union of is and is not. The transcendent God tends to shed predicates, or gobble them up, making all Phariseeism of tenets a bit silly. Aquinas’s Summa Theologica is considered the ne plus ultra of defining tenets, but he himself gave it up for religious reasons and left it unfinished:
buy Latuda online uk He took his time at Naples to work on the third part of the Summa while giving lectures on various religious topics. On 6 December 1273 Thomas was celebrating the Mass of St. Nicholas when, according to some, he heard Christ speak to him. Christ asked him what he desired, being pleased with his meritorious life. Thomas replied “Only you Lord. Only you.” After this exchange something happened, but Thomas never spoke of it or wrote it down. Because of what he saw, he abandoned his routine and refused to dictate to his socius Reginald of Piperno. When Reginald begged him to get back to work, Thomas replied: “Reginald, I cannot, because all that I have written seems like straw to me” (mihi videtur ut palea). What exactly triggered Thomas’s change in behavior is believed to be some kind of supernatural experience of God.
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