Thomas Aquinas
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 12:18 pm
Since he just came up, and since he's known to such a degree that even I've heard of him.
www.sacred-texts.com/chr/aquinas/summa/index.htm
It's all there, online, and doesn't need to be downloaded.]
Well, for me, the Eucharist is jumping the gun a whole lot. But it might be good for a believer. (Of course, it's not necessary for a believer, eh?)
OTOH, it starts with this:
[I found this immense work here:rusmeister wrote:He uses logic and reason - Aristotelian - to explain the Eucharist - something that we hold to be Mystery and inexplicable in human terms.Fist and Faith wrote:I made no assumptions. I asked a question. So okay, by "accumulating", you mean things more than simply accumulating names of people who agree on the same thing. Can you give us a hint about any of these things? What is the basic idea along these lines that makes you suggest Aquinas?rusmeister wrote:What it comes down to is that you ought to dip your toes into the waters of Christian - and Orthodox - theology before making assumptions about it.That's what I meant by 'goes too far'. It's in the Summa Theologica - which I downloaded but have only cracked open in a few places. It is dauntingly enormous. But it is certainly the opposite of what most people here propose about theology. The idea that reason is something opposed to and ultimately defeating faith permeates the modern view, and is more false than the flat earth worldview. It's just ignorance of everything between Aristotle and Descartes (OK, except Marcus Aurelius
). But that stuff is excluded precisely because the scholars of the later Roman /Byzantine civilizations and the inheritors of Rome in the West were, uh, Christian.
It's just one example, but you asked for a hint.
www.sacred-texts.com/chr/aquinas/summa/index.htm
It's all there, online, and doesn't need to be downloaded.]
Well, for me, the Eucharist is jumping the gun a whole lot. But it might be good for a believer. (Of course, it's not necessary for a believer, eh?)
OTOH, it starts with this:
and this:Aquinas wrote:Whether sacred doctrine is a science?
Which are surely starting points by my thinking. We'll see what happens.Aquinas wrote:THE EXISTENCE OF GOD (THREE ARTICLES)