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To: mad_as_he$$
When incorrect facts follow non-sequiturs, I conclude that the good bishop wasn't as good of a student of Aristotle as St. Thomas Aquinas.

Here's a rebuke from Pope Benedict XVI

As far as understanding of God and thus the concrete practice of religion is concerned, we find ourselves faced with a dilemma which nowadays challenges us directly. Is the conviction that acting unreasonably contradicts God’s nature merely a Greek idea, or is it always and intrinsically true? I believe that here we can see the profound harmony between what is Greek in the best sense of the word and the biblical understanding of faith in God. Modifying the first verse of the Book of Genesis, John began the prologue of his Gospel with the words: "In the beginning was the 'logos'". God acts with “logos.” “Logos” means both reason and word – a reason which is creative and capable of self-communication, precisely as reason. John thus spoke the final word on the biblical concept of God, and in this word all the often toilsome and tortuous threads of biblical faith find their culmination and synthesis. In the beginning was the “logos,” and the “logos” is God, says the Evangelist.

7 posted on 01/02/2011 3:03:44 PM PST by ALPAPilot
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To: ALPAPilot

So what does that mean?


17 posted on 01/02/2011 4:36:49 PM PST by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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