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Doctors of the Catholic Church

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:23:44 GMT

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St. Albert 11/15
St. Alphonsus Liguori 8/1
St. Ambrose 12/7
St. Anselm 4/21
St. Anthony of Padua 6/13
St. Athanasius 5/2
St. Augustine 8/28
St. Basil 1/2
St. Bede, the Venerable 5/25
St. Bernard of Clairvaux 8/20
St. Bonaventure 7/15
St. Catherine of Siena 4/29
St. Cyril of Alexandria 6/27
St. Cyril of Jerusalem 3/18
St. Ephraem of Syria 6/9
St. Francis de Sales 1/24
St. Gregory Nazianzus 1/2
St. Gregory the Great 9/3
St. Hilary of Poitiers 1/13
St. Isidore 4/4
St. Jerome 9/30
St. John Chrysostom 9/13
St. John Damascene 12/4
St. John of the Cross 12/14
St. Lawrence of Brindisi 7/21
St. Leo the Great 11/10
St. Peter Canisius 12/21
St. Peter Chrysologus 7/30
St. Peter Damian 2/21
St. Robert Bellarmine 9/17
St. Teresa of Avila 10/15
St. Therese of Lisieux 10/1

St. Thomas Aquinas 1/28

Tags: catholic, church, theology, renewal

Real Wealth - Friendship

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:21:56 GMT

clipped by: Kelika

Clip Source: www.spiritualwealth.com

"It is one of the blessings of old friends," said Ralph Waldo Emerson, "that you can afford to be stupid with them."

It has been said many times, but you really can't put a price on friendship. Our true friends are the ones who have known us the longest, understand us the best, and yet choose to hang out with us anyway.

"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship," said Saint Thomas Aquinas. "Without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."

The Greek philosopher Antisthenes said, "There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly."

"It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong," observed the tragedian Euripides, "but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends."

How about you? Do you have an old friend out there who would be delighted to see you or thrilled - as I recently was - to get an unexpected phone call?

If so, reach out. Call them

Houses of Straw

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:35:16 GMT

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...it all gets down to one individual over against many.

It was Augustine who changed the Church's formerly-held understanding of the Fall; Augustine who ignored the essence/energy distinction already taught by, for example, the Cappadocians; Augustine who explicated the "filioque."

Augustine can be forgiven, because he himself in his writings constantly begs to be corrected.

It was Aquinas who superimposed the teachings of Aristotle onto the doctrine of the Church, in a systematic and doctrine-distorting way.

Aquinas, too, can be forgiven, because before his end he had a vision in which he testifies that all he had formerly written was straw.

It is harder to understand those who seek to build houses out of that straw--who take neither Augustine nor Aquinas at their own words about their writings.

The Protestants are faithful to their papal patrimony, then, when they plug in Luther, or Wesley, or Calvin as the one, over against which the many must be measured.

Tags: eastern orthodoxy, orthodoxy

Atheists aren't skeptical enough and...

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:20:23 GMT

clipped by: Efrain Alvarado
clipper's remarks: ...the best skeptics are actually theists.

The agnostics ski down the mountain into the woods, searching for hard evidence on the basis of which to decide whether God exists—which is very odd, given that a moment ago they were standing here with us, ready to climb as declared skeptics. Agnostics, plainly, are wafflers in their skepticism: As the team gets going, they U-turn back to the foothills, where every true skeptic says there is nothing to find. They do not care about the truth.

But even more astonishing than that, the atheists have just gone home. They are not down in the valley looking for evidence; they are not looking at all. They have packed in the science without lifting a boot, as if the summit were already taken, the question answered.

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Unbelievers think that skepticism is their special virtue, the key virtue believers lack. Bolstered by bestselling authors, they see the skeptical and scientific mind as muscular thinking, which the believer has failed to develop. He could bulk up if he wished to, by thinking like a scientist, and wind up at the “agnosticism” of a Dawkins or the atheism of a Dennett—but that is just what he doesn’t want, so at every threat to his commitments he shuns science.

That story is almost exactly the opposite of the truth.

The story is right about virtue: The smoothly muscled skeptical-scientific mind is a gorgeous thing—picture the Apollo of Olympia, a poised young athlete in a throng of centaurs, passion-driven half-men. Science is a virtue: a perfection of the human creature gifted with a mind, a use of the mind that, says Aquinas, “perfects the speculative intellect for the consideration of truth.” But to be “men of truth,” in the words of Exodus, is to be vulnerable to truth.

Tags: god, christianity, atheism, agnosticism, skepticism, religion, reason, science

Top 10 Books that Changed the World

Mon, 26 May 2008 18:54:51 GMT

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I took the Top 10 List from the website "List Universe".

1. The (Douay Rheims) Bible or King James Version -- Various Authors (circa 30AD - 90AD) [Wikipedia]

2. The Qur’an - Various Authors (650AD to 656AD) [Wikipedia]

3. The Summa Theologica - St. Thomas Aquinas (1265 - 1274) [Wikipedia]

4. The Rights of Man - Thomas Paine (1791) [Wikipedia]

5. Either/Or - Søren Kierkegaard (1843) [Wikipedia]

6. Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1848) [Wikipedia]

7. Experimental Research in Electricity - Michael Faraday (1855) [Wikipedia]

8. On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin (1859) [Wikipedia]

9. The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir (1949) [Wikipedia]

10. Atlas Shrugged (Gigapedia: Free registration required) - Ayn Rand (1957) [Wikipedia]

Previous Post: 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written

Tags: 10 most influential books, bible, qu'ran, summa theologica, the rights of man

Question of the Day

Tue, 13 May 2008 18:15:43 GMT

clipped by: willhelm

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Why is it that those who borrow 99% of their ideas from Plato, Augustine and Aquinas are "sheep"...

while those who borrow 99% of their ideas from Nietzsche, Marx and Freud are "free thinkers"?

allaboutphilosophy.org

Mon, 12 May 2008 12:15:22 GMT

clipped by: Deepti
clipper's remarks: interesting site...

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Philosophy: The Big Questions

Do you want a rational investigation of the truth? Philosophy poses many questions. Where did I come from and why am I here? Why is there suffering? Is there a God? What is my purpose in life? Get started on your trek to find answers to life's most important questions

Systems of Thought

Deism Dualism Existentialism^* Nihilism Postmodernism Agnostic Atheism Communism Cultural Materialism Cultural Relativism Humanism Materialism Moral Relativism Naturalism Secular Humanism

Matters of Thought

Cosmological Argument^* Absolute Truth Creation Vs. Evolution Does God Exist? Evolutionism God God's Love Is God Real? Is There A God? Morality Situational Ethics Why Am I Here?

Great Thinkers

Abd-ar-Rahman III^* Antony Flew Aristotle Blaise Pascal Accomplishments C.S. Lewis Quotes Gilgamesh Great Philosophers Greek Philosopher Plato Life of Confucius Life of King David Life of St. Augustine Nebuchadnezzar Philosophy Quotes Thomas Aquinas

Tags: philosophy, thought, thinkers

Only a Beast or a God can Ignore the Political

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:06:04 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: Aristotle, the father of science, and Aquinas, one of the founders of modern Christianity. For them to claim separation from society (and politics) makes you beast, sinner, saint or god.

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To be fully human is to live in political society, and Aquinas makes a great deal of Aristotle's claim that one who is separated from society so as to be completely a-political must be either sub-human or super-human, either a "beast or a god." (Aristotle's Politics, 1253a27; Cf. Aquinas' Commentary, Book 1, Lesson 1 [39]).

Aquinas admits, of course, that political society is not the only natural community. The family is natural in perhaps an even stronger sense and is prior to political society. The priority of the family, however, is not a priority of importance, since politics aims at a higher and nobler good than the family. It is rather a priority of development. In other words, politics surpasses all other communities in dignity while at the same time depending upon and presupposing the family. On this point Aquinas follows Aristotle's explanation of how political society develops from other lower societies including both the family and the village.

Tags: political animal, aristotle, aquinas

Ethical Philosophy Quiz

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:39:30 GMT

clipped by: stormagnet
clipper's remarks: When I was filling out the answers, I hated it and was convinced that due to stupid semantic BS and limited options, my results would be terrible and end up matching me with someone I hate, or something.

So basically, my same beef as with ALL multiple choice quizzes.

I was pleasantly surprised, though- I matched highest with my two favorites (Epicurious and John Stuart Mill), and Sartre came in 4th. This is more than enough to satisfy me

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Click here to open a new Ethical Philosophy Selector page.
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	1.	Epicureans (100%) Information link
	2.	John Stuart Mill (83%) Information link
	3.	Kant (81%) Information link
	4.	Jean-Paul Sartre (77%) Information link
	5.	Jeremy Bentham (67%) Information link
	6.	Spinoza (65%) Information link
	7.	Aristotle (57%) Information link
	8.	Aquinas (56%) Information link
	9.	Prescriptivism (52%) Information link
	10.	Stoics (50%) Information link
	11.	Nietzsche (44%) Information link
	12.	Ayn Rand (43%) Information link
	13.	David Hume (42%) Information link
	14.	Ockham (40%) Information link
	15.	Nel Noddings (37%) Information link
	16.	Plato (33%) Information link
	17.	Thomas Hobbes (31%) Information link
	18.	St. Augustine (28%) Information link
	19.	Cynics (15%) Information link

Tags: philosophy, morals, morality, ethics, quizzes

Pro-life student group denounces artist who used abortions for art exhibit

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:51:17 GMT

clipped by: Efrain Alvarado
clipper's remarks: "A work of art represents the mind of the maker." St. Thomas Aquinas

Clip Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

Arlington, Apr 18, 2008 / 04:18 am (CNA).- A national pro-life student group denounced the actions of a Yale art student who claims to have artificially inseminated herself and then induced in herself several abortions as part of an art project. The national group, Students for Life America, has also called on abortion-rights organizations to condemn the student’s actions.

According to the April 17 edition of the Yale Daily News, a so-called art project of Yale senior Aliza Shvarts will display physical blood samples and videos of her abortions in the stated goal that the exhibit will "spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body." In the Yale Daily News article, Shvarts said she was not ashamed of the exhibition and has become “increasingly comfortable” discussing her induced miscarriages in everyday conversation.

She is recreating a natural tragedy for her own personal gain without regard for her children or herself.”

Tags: abortion, prolife, art, planned parenthood

St. Thomas Aquinas on Belief

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:17:51 GMT

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We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274AD) on Belief
Mini-Bio: Italian; Dominican philosopher, theologian, mystic, hymnist, Doctor of the Church

Tags: st., thomas, aquinas, belief, evidence

St. Thomas Aquinas on Art

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:13:20 GMT

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A work of art represents the mind of the maker.

St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274AD)

Tags: st thomas aquinas, art, mind

Five Reasons the Cross was the Most Suitable Way for Our Redemption

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:20:24 GMT

clipped by: Efrain Alvarado

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Summa Theologica, St. Thomas gives the following five reasons for why the Crucifixion of Jess was the most suitable way for our redemption

III. Q.46, Art. 3

In the first place, man knows thereby how much God loves him, and is thereby stirred to love Him in return, and herein lies the perfection of human salvation

Romans 5:8

Secondly, because thereby He set us an example of obedience, humility, constancy, justice, and the other virtues displayed in the Passion, which are requisite for man's salvation

1 Peter 2:21

Thirdly, because Christ by His Passion not only delivered man from sin, but also merited justifying grace for him and the glory of bliss

Fourthly, because by this man is all the more bound to refrain from sin

1 Corinthians 6:20

Fifthly, because it redounded to man's greater dignity, that as man was overcome and deceived by the devil, so also it should be a man that should overthrow the devil; and as man deserved death, so a man by dying should vanquish death

1 Corinthians 15:57

Tags: st. thomas aquinas, christ, passion, jesus, easter, scripture, summa theologica

Top 12 books of Christian History

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:23:57 GMT

clipped by: willhelm

Clip Source: www.scriptoriumdaily.com

1. Selections from the Bible: Paul’s Letters and John’s Gospel.

2. Irenaeus of Lyons, Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching.

3. Athanasius of Alexandria, On the Incarnation.

4. Gregory of Nazianzus, The Five Theological Orations.

5. Cyril of Alexandria, On the Unity of Christ.

6. Augustine of Hippo, The Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love.

7. Anselm of Canterbury, Cur Deus Homo (Why God Became Man).

8. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae selections.

9. Martin Luther, Selections.

10. John Calvin, The Institutes.

11. The Heidelberg Catechism by Ursinus and Olevianus

12. John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress.

Tags: christianity, theology, books, history

Feel Like A Fraud? Maybe You Should

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:23:42 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: *LOL* Ask anyone who is in the closet.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Stare into a mirror long enough and it’s hard not to wonder whether that’s a mask staring back, and if so, who’s really behind it.

Presidents and parents, after all, are expected to make crucial decisions on a dime. Doctors are being asked to save lives, and graduate students to know how Aristotle’s conception of virtue differed from Aquinas’s conception of — uh-oh.

Who’s kidding whom?

Yet if feelings of phoniness were all bad, it seems unlikely that they would be so familiar to so many emotionally well-adapted people.

This native confidence is likely to be functional: in a world of profound uncertainty, self-serving delusion probably helps people to get out of bed and chase their pet projects.