Henninger also compares the Pope's approach to Scalia's approach to the Constitution.
1 posted on
04/22/2005 4:48:54 AM PDT by
maryz
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2 posted on
04/22/2005 4:55:24 AM PDT by
maryz
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4 posted on
04/22/2005 5:31:01 AM PDT by
jboot
(Faith is not a work)
To: maryz; TonyRo76
Lutheran ping!
I am currently plowing through City of God, and so have read more of Augustine than Thomas, but I do prefer Augustine.
Thomas has often been accused (and rightly so at times) of using circular logic. While I haven't read all of his stuff yet, what I have read is at times guilty of that.
5 posted on
04/22/2005 6:21:27 AM PDT by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: maryz
Augustine was a Platonist while Aquinas was an Aristotelian. The influence of the Greek philosophers is clear to any one who reads the work of the two greatest Christian thinkers in Western Civilization.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
10 posted on
04/22/2005 7:48:57 AM PDT by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: maryz
The fifth century was one of those watershed times...brilliant men of faith who helped build what was needed to carry the church through the collapse of the empire in the west.
Interesting that Benedict would be drawn to those who would be key to that - St. Augustine, St. Benedict, when our own civilization seems to be teetering on its own dark age.
11 posted on
04/22/2005 8:01:33 AM PDT by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: All
Certainly interesting, as is his declaration to pursue church unity.
But, that rings hollow when in 2000, he published a document as part of the Church's doctrine office saying Protestant churches are not "proper" churches and are "deficient."
16 posted on
04/22/2005 10:40:28 AM PDT by
rwfromkansas
(http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
To: maryz
Ach, du Lieber, Augustine.
19 posted on
04/22/2005 12:01:19 PM PDT by
RightWhale
(50 trillion sovereign cells working together in relative harmony)
To: Kolokotronis
Augustine is the more mystical personality, closer in some ways to the "new age" impulses of our times. In the writings of Augustine, arguably the most complex mind Christianity has produced, the exercise of deep faith carries with it the possibility of what I would call a "high" experience in one's pursuit of and relationship to God. That was the Church of the 5th century. In our time, religion has become freighted with correct politics (the Left) or correct morality (the Right), rather than the substance of one's relationship with God.
I get the impression that Joseph Ratzinger--who reveres the early, transcendent Church Fathers (its "founding fathers")--is at heart more a vibrant 5th-century Christian than a stale 19th-century dogmatist; as conceivably was John Paul II, who often let himself slip into an Upward-directed reverie in public. In short, Benedict XVI looks to be very different from the stolid, authoritarian German described this week in the public prints.
26 posted on
04/22/2005 12:35:16 PM PDT by
sionnsar
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To: maryz
Those who wish to see where they fall, check out this site.
selectsmart.com/PHILOSOPHY/
My results are
St. Augustine 100%
Aquinas 86%
Kant 69%
57 posted on
04/23/2005 8:48:48 AM PDT by
mware
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche........ "Nope, you are"-- GOD)
To: Dumb_Ox; Aquinasfan
59 posted on
04/23/2005 10:17:28 AM PDT by
cornelis
To: maryz
"When you become Pope, other people do the packing." ABC News reporting on the Pope moving to his new papal apartment.
68 posted on
04/23/2005 5:04:47 PM PDT by
Ciexyz
(Let us always remember, the Lord is in control.)
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