Tag: St. Thomas Aquinas
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Review: Speaking With Aquinas, by David Turnbloom
David Turnbloom’s impressive study of how Thomas Aquinas understands the Eucharist to produce it’s effects, and what those effects are, is both an important new work of sacramental theology and an important investigation of how differing theologies can profitably dialogue.
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Tantum ergo
How my grandmother taught me about Aquinas.
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Pelicans on Good Friday
“O pie pellicane!”
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“Loosely translated. . .”
The idea that the English word that looks the most like the Latin word is clearly the right choice seems clearly mistaken.
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What does the mouse… er, ah, uhm… the dog eat?
If “the mouse or dog does not touch Christ’s body in its proper species, but only as to its sacramental species,” what’s the big deal if a dog is given communion?
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Tweeting the Summa Theologiae?
Contra: “The Master of Catholic Truth ought not only to teach the proficient, but also to instruct beginners” (ST Prologue). Therefore http://twitter.com/summatheologiae.
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Quote of the Day
“If we resolve the problems posed by faith exclusively by means of authority, we will of course possess the truth – but in empty heads!”