St. Thomas Aquinas – Page 2

Can We Know God Is Real? Part I

Marty Dybicz May 15, AD2021 4 Comments

We can know God is real, and we can do so without Faith. We can know, from Reason alone, that God exists. Recall that Faith

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What Has Philosophy to Do With Religion?

Rory Fox February 2, AD2021 7 Comments

Over the centuries people have often asked whether philosophy has any place in religion. Sometimes philosophy has been rejected as a distraction. On other occasions

Why Is God So Invisible?

Rory Fox January 5, AD2021 3 Comments

If God is all-knowing and all-good then God has information which would benefit people, and He should want to communicate it to them. Yet God

Is the Church Necessary for Salvation?

Rory Fox September 6, AD2020 11 Comments

Salvation is the central message of Christian good news. This is shown in ancient inscriptions like the Ichthus (fish), which spell out the claim: Jesus

Thinking Clearly With Aquinas About Covid-19

Marty Dybicz March 31, AD2020 1 Comment

The Covid-19 Crisis calls for clear thinking but how do we know if we are thinking clearly about Covid-19? How do we know if someone

Laity to the Rescue

David Torkington March 18, AD2020 No Comments

The essential principles of Christian spirituality are to be found in the teaching of the first Apostles that they received directly from Jesus Christ, It

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Science in the Service of God: St. Albert the Great

Janet Meyer November 14, AD2019 1 Comment

Is it true one cannot be a scientist and a Christian? Some believe it is foolish to believe in God because what we learn from

Effective Evangelization Based on Aquinas’ Five Ways

Briana Huddleston October 26, AD2019 3 Comments

If Catholics really want to evangelize effectively, they have to meet people where they are. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae provides five logical arguments for the

To Shine or to Illuminate: Which Will You Choose?

Suellen Brewster October 23, AD2019 3 Comments

Our twenty-first century world does its best to keep us away from a contemplative life, away from the things of God. It is shiny, sparkly,

Immoderate Desires IV: The Deadly Sin of Envy

Anthony S. Layne April 23, AD2019 6 Comments

Envy, in our modern idiom, is treated almost as a joke, a backhanded way of celebrating our neighbor’s good fortune: “I envy you, brother.” “You

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Immoderate Desires III: The Deadly Sin of Avarice

Anthony S. Layne April 9, AD2019 3 Comments

Avarice, one of the seven capital (“deadly”) sins, is more difficult to discern in our society than are Gluttony and Lust — at least, it’s

Immoderate Desires I: The Deadly Sin of Gluttony

Anthony S. Layne March 5, AD2019 14 Comments

Gluttony. It’s not a word we commonly hear or read in conversation anymore. We may merely think of it as a “fat-shaming” synonym for overeating.

Problems in Contingency II: The Argument for God From Contingency

Bob Drury February 19, AD2019 1 Comment

This essay presents the argument for the existence of God from the existence of existentially contingent entities, the entities of our direct experience. The previous

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Causality and St. Thomas Aquinas’ Second Way

Bob Drury August 1, AD2018 No Comments

The second way of proving the existence of God by St. Thomas Aquinas is that of efficient causality. It is not just any old efficient

On the Integration of Substantial Change, Creation, and Evolution

Bob Drury March 11, AD2018 5 Comments

Substantial change, creation, and evolution are commonly acknowledged to be topics in philosophy, theology, and science, respectively. The integration of theology with philosophy within human

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Happiness: The Sun on Our Heart

Christian Daru December 18, AD2017 1 Comment

This column is the second in a three-part series concerning ethics and human happiness. Restless Hearts In the previous installation of this series, we examined

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The Five Ways of St. Thomas Aquinas Part V: The Fifth Way

Michele Boyer September 22, AD2017 1 Comment

The Fifth Way – Argument from Governance or Order Just as the Third and Fourth Ways build on the first two Ways, the Fifth of

The Five Ways of St. Thomas Aquinas, Part IV: The Fourth Way

Michele Boyer September 8, AD2017 2 Comments

The Fourth Way — the Argument from Gradation or Degrees of a Quality The Fourth Way to demonstrate the existence of God is from the

The Five Ways of St. Thomas Aquinas, Part III: The Third Way

Michele Boyer August 22, AD2017 No Comments

The Third Way – The Argument from Necessity Building upon the Argument from Efficient Cause, the Third Way demonstrates that there are things that are