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@hannonregular
Dec 17, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Absolutely. The reason is that, in #2, we’re knowing through effects the truth of a statement whose cause is precisely God’s unknown essence. But even here, whatever word we’re predicating of God, we do not know its definition as it applies to God. When I say “God is good,” for example, I am asserting something substantially of God. I’m actually making a claim about the divine essence itself, and not just about his relation to creatures as cause. “God is good” does not just mean “God causes good things.”
Dec 10, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Christ endured every human suffering (generically speaking, since no one can endure absolutely every suffering since some are mutually exclusive). Consider this: … He was made to suffer by all: Jews and gentiles, men and women (the maids accusing Peter), important people and servants, friends and acquaintances (Judas betrays him, Peter denies him). …
Nov 4, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
St. Albert there Great teaches that the holy Eucharist was prefigured by the manna for five reasons: because of origin, taste, place, miracle, and lack. (thread) The manna prefigures the holy Eucharist by origin, because the manna fell from heaven, and Christ is from heaven, since the one assuming our human nature is one of the most holy Trinity.
Jun 15, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
It has become a theological commonplace that St. Thomas teaches that virtues and vices are the two intrinsic principles of human acts, and that law and grace are the two extrinsic principles. This is wrong. (A thread.) If one reads the relevant prooemia in the Prima Secundae (e.g. to QQ. 49 & 90), it’s clear that the two intrinsic principles are power and habit. But Thomas has treated power already in the Prima Pars (Q. 77ff), so here he treats habit, whose relevant species are virtue and vice.
Apr 20, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The friend-enemy blowup today inspired me to look up what the Fathers and St. Thomas have to say about Matthew 5:44, our Lord’s life-giving command to love one’s enemies. ... ... With St. Gregory the Great, St. Thomas says that one may not rejoice over an enemy’s ruin absolutely, so as to wish him to be shut out from salvation, ...