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General Discussion / Re: Are there any ways to post...

Last post by Geremia - March 09, 2023, 09:20:30 PM

Are there any ways to post pictures in forum threads? Or  to post Youtube video links to show up as thumbnail images?

Yes, click these buttons on the toolbar:

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General Discussion / Are there any ways to post pic...

Last post by leonardthomas1556 - March 09, 2023, 07:04:48 PM

Are there any ways to post pictures in forum threads? Or  to post Youtube video links to show up as thumbnail images?
Thanks!

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Theology / Re: What lost bible commentary...

Last post by Geremia - March 07, 2023, 05:51:02 PM

Interesting. It expresses that the Word of God is more important than our mere earthly goods.

And an entire city is a great, common (thus spiritual) good.

Reminds me (tangentially) of how St. Jerome says (Letter 22 to St. Eustochium §19):

I do not detract from wedlock when I set virginity before it. No one compares a bad thing with a good. Wedded women may congratulate themselves that they come next to virgins.

or how despite the common good being greater than an individual's good, St. Thomas Aquinas argues that an individual religious person (monk or nun) cannot be called back to the world, no matter the human good that may result (II-II q. 88 a. 11 "Whether it is possible to be dispensed from a solemn vow of continency?" arg./ad 1; Freddoso transl. PDF pp. 2395,7); cf. "Has any monk or nun ever left a monastery to be married to a king or queen?"

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Theology / Re: What lost bible commentary...

Last post by Kephapaulos - March 06, 2023, 10:14:58 PM

Interesting. It expresses that the Word of God is more important than our mere earthly goods.

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Theology / Re: What lost bible commentary...

Last post by Geremia - March 04, 2023, 07:48:45 PM

G. K. Chesterton, St. Thomas Aquinas (1933) ch. 4:

As he entered Paris, they showed him from the hill that splendour of new spires beginning, and somebody said something like, "How grand it must be to own all this." And Thomas Aquinas only muttered, "I would rather have that Chrysostom MS. I can't get hold of."

Brian Davies, O.P., The Thought of Thomas Aquinas (2015) p. 7:

According to one story he is said to have been asked if he would like to be lord of Paris. He is supposed to have replied that he would not know what to do with the city and that he would rather have the (presumably lost) homilies of St John Chrysostom (c.347–407) on the Gospel of St Matthew.²⁹
29. Cf. Ferrua, Thomae Aquinatis ..., 318.

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Theology / What lost bible commentary did...

Last post by Geremia - March 02, 2023, 05:56:08 PM

I've heard it claimed that St. Thomas Aquinas desired to obtain a manuscript of a biblical commentary (by St. John Chrysostom?) more than he desired to posses an entire kingdom. What is the source of this story?

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General Discussion / Randall's Rules of Righteous R...

Last post by Geremia - February 06, 2023, 07:07:06 PM

cf. Revolution & Counter-Revolution and Rules for Retrogrades

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General Discussion / Dragonslayers | How The Opera...

Last post by Geremia - February 06, 2023, 07:05:45 PM

[Register for BSI's free conference]

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Fides et Ratio / BSI science conference Februar...

Last post by Geremia - February 06, 2023, 05:24:31 PM

Register for BSI's free conference Saturday, February 18, 2023, 12:00-4:00 PM at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel.

Presenters include:

• William M. Briggs, whose 2016 Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics cites Ed Feser, St. Thomas Aquinas, and William A. Wallace, O.P.
• James Franklin, of the Aristotelian-realist Sydney School of mathematics

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General Discussion / Re: Post-VCII Traditional Theo...

Last post by Geremia - February 06, 2023, 05:13:17 PM

Crean, O.P. is the closest to a contemporary protégé  of Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., that I know of, though he's a mere kid compared to the giant Sacred Monster of Thomism—in terms of prolificity, adherence to strict scholastic form, and Latinity. 😉