To: stfassisi; kosta50
“Can you explain why you think this ,Dear Brother?”
What he has theorized is diametrically opposed to the consensus patrum. Aquinas wrote well, but his writings are so suffused with pagan philosophy that sometimes it is hard to credit that he was truly a Christian theologian. It helps to remember that he was arguing with Mohammedan disputants who were steeped in Aristotelian philosophy. There is very little in the writings of Aquinas which an Orthodox Christian will recognize and embrace.
5,747 posted on
05/23/2008 6:30:46 PM PDT by
Kolokotronis
(Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)
To: Kolokotronis
That only explains your personal opinion of Aquinas,Dear Brother, that is backed up with no substance. It does not address what was written in post #5744.
I am sincerely trying to understand why you reject it?
5,748 posted on
05/23/2008 6:47:03 PM PDT by
stfassisi
( ("Above all gifts that Christ gives his beloved is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi))
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