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heresylog · 5 months
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Okay you mentioned Aquinas in a post recently and I was instantly reminded of a question I asked one of my friends a while ago. She didn’t have an answer for me since she wasn’t super familiar with him so figured I may as well ask you.
I’m reading a book called Empress Theresa by Norman Boutin. It’s terrible in every conceivable way and I’m having a blast. One of the more key features of the book is the incomprehensible Catholicism of the writer and main character. The way he talks about God and religion makes little to no sense most of the time and usually sounds like the ramblings of someone who just got their wisdom teeth out.
At one point in the book it’s mentioned that the main characters theology professor was swapped out by someone who is “heavy into Aquinas” because it would help her prepare to save the world I guess? Since I didn’t know the name I asked a catholic friend if Norman having a fascination with Aquinas would explain some of how strange the depiction of religion in the book is but she wasn’t super familiar with him.
Figured I may as well pose the same question to you though I can probably guess based on the fact you were recommending him to a beginner. But hey, at least now you can get a good laugh if you want to look into this book a bit, it’s a wild ride
Aquinas is cool because his whole deal was that God can be studied like a science and through thought we can have more faith.
I don’t know enough about this book to answer your question. I can just give you what I know.
Aquinas wrote Summa Theologica to introduce students to theology and to the Catholic faith. It was designed to be a beginner’s guide.
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catmint1 · 6 months
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If the highest aim of a captain was to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
—St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
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vulnerasti-cor-meum · 2 years
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reading Kreeft’s summa of the summa since I’d heard about it so much and also am too cowardly to approach aquinas’s summa without any significant handholding but jesus christ the editorializing in this - does he really think modern men don’t believe in objective values. is this the philosopher’s version of “needs to go outside and touch grass”
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brianchilton · 5 months
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The Five Notions of God: Lessons from the Summa, Part 1
By: Brian G. Chilton, Ph.D., M.Div. | October 20, 2023 Recently, I began a project to read through the Summa Theologica, the massive magnum opus by Thomas Aquinas. Throughout my readings, I am learning new things that I had not considered in my graduate and post-graduate programs. Some of these topics are deeply theological and philosophical in nature, but they hold great value to the Christian…
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the-chill-remains · 2 years
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actually-catholic · 2 years
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Look what I got!
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mysticfemme · 4 months
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i hate aquinas and my head hurts and i miss my butch and i wish he was here (my butch not aquinas)
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I read it(The Summa) for about twenty minutes every night before I go to bed. If my mother were to come in during this process and say, "Turn of that light. It's late," I with lifted finger and broad bland beatific expression, would reply, "On the contrary, I answer that the light, being external and limitless, cannot be turned off. Shut your eyes," or some such thing.
-- Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being.
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stjohncapistrano67 · 1 year
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thehumoredhost · 2 years
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Dear Murray, 
I have been unable to reply any sooner to your last letter which reached me quite some time ago. [8] I have read it twenty times. [3] There is too much irony in it, it is too knowing to be serious. [5] There is still much I don't even begin to understand, but for seven days, the bits have been clumping together into a vague picture. [7] I don't see how this could work [9]. I don't like it.[7]
Your plan contains a central tower a central observation post [10],giving you a stage to ‘talk’, with not only Venetian blinds on the windows of the central observation hall, but, on the inside, partitions that intersected the hall at right angles and, in order to pass from one quarter to the other, not doors but zig zag openings; for the slightest noise, a gleam of light, a brightness in a half opened door would betray the presence of the comedian, you[11] I wonder will you allow us totalk. [13] With you every statement is converted to a rhetorical question. [5] Always talking, never giving, staying in a good position in irreversible logic. [12] This device, by itself, politicises talking,[5] it automatizes and disindividualizes power [11]
What goals are such systems designed to achieve?[14] It’s not just you; nobody, appears to know exactly what anyone else is talking about, the terms of discussion having become either too generic or too divergent to achieve any mutual understanding. [15] People talk about you a bit: forget you. [13] They wonder if they should talk any, or talk the whole time, or what to talk about.[16]Our mind cannot embrace many objects or many situations at the same time. [17] What if there is no word, real or fabricated, which will accomplish that? [18] What will you do then?
I'm afraid I don't quite understand what all this talk of “issues" is about. [18] We know how greatly laws are disregarded during war, when all things are under the control of violence rather than reason [19] War and chaos there might have been, but these were hardly new phenomena in the recent history. [20] The body, the statue, our knowledges or memories, libraries or cenotaphs: all imprison the phantom by denying its existence. [21] lt is far easier for us to imagine chaos than the proper proportions of the universe. [17] Talking ,in this case, is just pointless. Words to put you to sleep, wine to put you to sleep, words and wine to put the tragic and comic of existence to sleep.No bread for the poor, no love for the men, no wine for the feasts, nothing, always nothing, wind, nothing but wind. [ 22]
In your letter you say: I executed this project slowly, and at different times, but with as much application and care as I was capable of employing, being fully persuaded that the repose of my life and future happiness depended on it. [3]
So I would like to know if you have any clarifications on this point, because this is what I'm thinking: [23]Happiness without glass   how stupid is that![24]
I believe that the mystery which defeats me is a mockery, a joke, that is played on me.[25] Verily, you comedians are the most pleasant people in point of tongue and the subtlest in jest, and this is but a joke of thine; but all times are not good for funning and jesting.[26]
You’re such fun, always joking, you’re so clever at it, nothing that you thought was serious ever seems to be when you’re around, and yet you're a very serious man. [27] However, it remains questionable whether you, for your part, can really be serious about the antithesis to it: "to mean it seriously.” [28]
Just a little heart to heart talk.[13]This friend, in whose company you are jesting, is in fear. [29]I see your peace of mind is in danger…For a condemned man, a mask is not a mask, it is a shelter. [2] It’s an obsession with you, it isn’t natural that you should always be talking about it. [30]
I know, you won’t listen. I know you’ll do exactly as you please and write it off as a joke. If you’re going to talk, then talk so we can hear you! Talk about centralisation! [25] Talk about superfluous overpackaging! [30]Talk of mysteries! [32] Talk about an irresistible offer! [16]Talk about apple dumplings, piuttosto. All a kind of attempt to talk. Talk: as if that would mend matters. [13] But don’t you dare make me a part of it! 
Istanbul 
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livesandlight · 2 years
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But night belongs to darkness, and day to light. -Aquinas Summa Theologica
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saint-augustines-pears · 10 months
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I know what love is but I don’t know how it fits into everything else and tbh I’m kinda scared to look it up because I know I’ll fall down a rabbit hole in the summa theologica and I don’t have five hours to waste
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primordialgod · 2 years
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;;ooc
Things she likes: 
metal music. all genres of metal music.
talking to very old immortals. especially infamous, insane, and/or weird immortals.
romanticizing ancient and medieval times
black or dark clothes.
expensive black cars.
wandering and exploring old castles
wandering the countryside
wandering old towns or cities
exploring forests, caves, ghost towns, etc
traveling in overnight trains across long distances.
making people smile and laugh. making people cry from joy.
snuggling and cuddling. physical affection in general.
traveling the world and staying in fancy hotels.
talking to every even mildly strange or creepy person she comes across.
investigating strange, unusual, or creepy situations. 
philosophical and theological discussions.
reading medieval manuscripts.
ancient or medieval vampires.
a handful of hell’s royalty.
giving and receiving hugs.
telepathically sharing memories with people.
telepathic conversations in general.
saying things like “do you wanna kill the Pope and raid the Vatican?” or “let’s go dig up your old friends in the catacombs!”
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thoughtkick · 8 months
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If the highest aim of a captain was to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
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resqectable · 4 months
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If the highest aim of a captain was to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
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