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St. Thomas Aquinas & Thomism

Aquinas for the Rest of Us
June 2020Man is part of the world and also separate from it, embedded in a spiritual hierarchy that stretches infinitely beyond what we can see, touch, and hear.
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Total Personal Creation: The Restoration of Philosophical Sanity?
March 2020The tension between God’s will and human freedom is resolved in a manner that acknowledges the transcendence of God’s nature.
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The Thomistic Critique of Theistic Evolution
June 2019Thomism is an integral part of the millennial flow of Western thought and cannot simply be consigned to the dustbin of misguided and superseded systems of philosophy.
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The Qur’an as Allah’s Logos
June 2019Instead of completely erasing references to “the Word,” Muhammad attributed them to the Qur’an, thus making the book he received the true Logos of the Creator.
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Minding the Gap
April 2019Modern philosophy has had difficulty relating what goes on in the human mind to what is “out there” in reality. How to bridge this gap is the task phenomenology sets for itself.
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Are Revelation & Modernity Compatible?
January-February 2019The effort of the Church to come to terms with the modern world too often assumes that contemporary culture is neutral when, in fact, it is closed to the transcendent.
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Thomas Aquinas Contra Andy Rooney
November 1999The hallmark of Catholic theology is that it insists on the concrete and resists the ethereal. Our beliefs are beliefs about reality.
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Reassessing Aquinas
January-February 1993Review of The Primacy of Love and The Priority of Prudence
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Kant Was Wrong
September 1986According to Kant, we do not look upon the world as it is, but upon an appearance of the world projected by the structures of the human mind.
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Humility’s Sorry Fortunes in Society & Philosophy
May 1986The Christian doctrine of humility strikes the secular mind as paradoxical in its insistence that the better a person is the more humble a person should be.
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Against 20th-Century Prejudices
September 1983The natural law tradition, viable for Thomas, does not strike most contemporary ethical theorists as an acceptable framework for understanding moral judgments.
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