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Tag Archives: Thomas Aquinas

Bathtub Gin. (A Night at the Lord Baltimore Hotel).

05-Mar-15

Kyrenia The Summa Theologica doesn’t have that many odd and charming moments, but certainly one of them is when Aquinas – taking a break from questions like “Whether There is Only One Aeviternity”, “Whether Goodness Has the Aspect of a Final Cause”, and “Whether the Separated Soul Understands Separate Substances” – decides to tackle the question, […]

“Fundamentalism is Rationalism in Religion.”

22-Sep-11

http://thehistoryhacker.com/test 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 […]