Aquinas - A Minus

Book One
http://dhspriory.org/thomas/ContraGentiles1.htm
Book Four
http://dhspriory.org/thomas/ContraGentiles4.htm
Why I became a Monk - A Dominican speaks about Thomas Aquinas, suggesting that modern secular culture is not nearly so rational as religion is.
http://dhspriory.org/our-community/brothers/70-aquinas-and-a-dominican-vocation




Entire works of Thomas Aquinas in English-
http://dhspriory.org/thomas/

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• Aquinas
• Aristotle
• Dominican
• Order
• theology
• Trinity
• Procession
• Holy
• Spirit
• Orthodox
• Catholic
• Inquisition
• primroses

[Tridhos]

Even Sir Isaac Newton could not accept the idea of the Trinity and he believed in some weird stuff. A book I would recommend that details how the Trinity came into being as far as the RC church is concerned is AD381 by Charles Freeman. Nothing to do with religion and more to do with keeping the Roman Empire intact.

[tenneral]

@Tridhos Many thanks for this : I will look for this enlightening book.

[urbanelf]

What Bach did you play?

[tenneral]

@urbanelf I try to get through most of the important P & Fs, with the occasional bit of the organ concerti if the congregation stay long enough to enjoy such things!

[MikeOfKorea]

If the Holy Spirit didn't proceed from the Father and the Son, in that order, then God doesn't reflect the natural hierarchy designed into Creation. If God doesn't reflect that hierarchy, then the hierarchy doesn't reflect God, hence the questioning of authority and the breakdown of civilization that ensues. The claim that the Persons of the Trinity are co-equals doesn't jive with the notion of Procession, though, does it?

[tenneral]

@MikeOfKorea  Your guess is as good as mine, Mike: you have the advantage of theological training. To me it's all a load of neo-Platonic metaphysical crap.

[juliuschas]

"Is it possible to think of one as three, or of three as one? If you think of three as one, can you think of one as none, or of none as one? When you think of three as one, what do you do with the other two? You must not “confound the persons”—they must be kept separate. When you think of one as three, how do you get the other two? You must not “divide the substance.” Is it possible to write greater contradictions than these?" -- Col. Robert G. Ingersoll

[niriop]

I've always thought Aquinas blasé myself

[Tridhos]

@golddiggingants You are not alone; all the great thinkers including Augustine tied themselves in knots trying to explain it. In the end it was an idea imposed and anyone who thought differently was labelled a heretic.

[scout663]

I really like you. Your videos are both entertaining and very insightful. I can not say enough. Thanks and keep doing what your doing. :)

Much love and respect. Scout663

[violentlygraceful]

A very enjoyable video. Regarding the filioque, I have to side with the Orthodox on that. It was an innovation. :)

Another horrid example from church history is the extermination of the Nestorians. People were killed because they disagreed about the degree of separation between the divine and human natures of Christ.

[neil73]

@tenneral The Iliyad came through the post this morning, and I will begin reading it as soon as I finish my other reading requirements necessary for my course.

Doing an English degree is certainly a lot of fun!

[golddiggingants]

@golddiggingants Establish such technology to explain such phenomena, rather. Oops.

[golddiggingants]

Also, to be charitable, perhaps it is true to say given the enormous ignorance of anyone (even scholars) in the Middle Ages, it would be more rational to believe in a god under those circumstances? Not only did they not have the technology to explain natural phenomena, they didn't even have the framework with which they could hope to establish such phenomena (or the intellectual framework to support science as we know it today).

[golddiggingants]

I never understood the trinity thing, how anything could be absolutely three and absolutely one at the same time. I was told that no one did and it was proof of the glory of God etc. The fact that something which no one around me has ever claimed to understand ("it just is, just believe") was the cause of that schism blows my mind.