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02/02/2017

The formal status of christian philosophy 2

The first consequence of the meeting with Revelation is that the misteries of faith are not accepted for their intrinsic evidence but as a result of a free assent. While the greek attitude highlights the noetic aspect of intellectual adhesion, faith highlights the existential aspect in which [...]

12/01/2017

The formal status of christian philosopy

A first distinction that must be taken into account when determining the formal status of christian philosophy is that existing between the wise character of every philosophy and the proposal of truth that Christian Revelation offers the believer. Aristotle, from an early age, had already [...]

22/12/2016

Space and time in Christian philosophy 2

Just as happened with the sense of time, the novelty of faith also illuminated the constitution of the terrestrial city itself. St. Thomas, in political philosophy, gathers the accomplishments of the aristotelian and stoic ethics; the patristic contributions and those of St. Augustine; several [...]

15/12/2016

Review: The Return of the Prodigal Son

A chance encounter with a reproduction of Rembrandt's The Return of the Prodigal Son catapulted Henri Nouwen on a long spiritual adventure. Here he shares the deeply personal and resonant meditation that led him to discover the place within where God has chosen to dwell. In seizing the [...]

08/12/2016

Space and time in Christian philosophy

The historical interpretation by Christian philosophers was progressive and linear. It can be said that St. Augustine founded the theology of history, or at least leaded this reflection beyond the usual limits reached until then. The ordination of time is not made on the basis of an initial [...]

29/09/2016

The proofs of the existence of God 4

The fifth way starts from the dynamic finite being, but not in the formality of movement or activity, but in that of the direction or ordination towards an end. Every moved’s movement has a direction towards an end. There is certainly an ordination towards an end in the activity of living [...]

20/05/2016

unpublished: Saint Gregory of Nyssa

"Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy (Mt 5,7). Mercy is not in last place of the beatitudes. Still observes: Blessed is the man who is kind to the wretched and the poor (Ps 40,2) and also: It is good that pities and lends (Ps 111.5). Elsewhere we read also: All day fair has [...]

15/05/2016

Review: The Saints in Mercy

Vianney was born on 8 May 1786, in the French town of Dardilly (near Lyon), and was baptized the same day. His parents, Matthieu Vianney and Marie Beluze,had six children, of whom John was the fourth. The Vianneys were devout Catholics, who helped the poor and gave hospitality to St. Benedict [...]

28/04/2016

The proofs of the existence of God 3

The starting point of the first way is the movement realised in one being. What moves is moved by another one, i.e., whatever moves goes from potenciality to actuality, but anything goes from potentiality to actuality by itself. Movement can only be explained as a transition from [...]

31/03/2016

The proofs of the existence of God 2

We call natural law to any necessary and immutable relation given between the natures of things; but this law aquires in man a special classification, for his will aims to universal good and is free from partial goods. The starting point of this proos is correct: the existence of a natural [...]

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