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To: Aquinasfan

You didn't answer the question I asked, but that's okay. We all need to vent now and then.


40 posted on 12/07/2005 8:55:19 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: snarks_when_bored
You didn't answer the question I asked,

#33?

These statements of the teaching authority of the Church expressed an atmosphere in which faith in God had penetrated the medieval culture and given rise to philosophical consequences. The cosmos was seen as contingent in its existence and thus dependent on a divine choice which called it into being; the universe is also contingent in its nature and so God was free to create this particular form of world among an infinity of other possibilities. Thus the cosmos cannot be a necessary form of existence; and so it has to be approached by a posteriori investigation. The universe is also rational and so a coherent discourse can be made about it. Indeed the contingency and rationality of the cosmos are like two pillars supporting the Christian vision of the cosmos.

46 posted on 12/07/2005 9:02:59 AM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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