Tag: St. Thomas Aquinas
Wise Words On Wednesday: Created Goods
“It is impossible for any created good to constitute man’s happiness.”
St. Thomas Aquinas
The New Atheism and the Five Ways
One of my challenges this year was to become better acquainted with St. Thomas Aquinas. As a result, I’ve dug more into Thomas’ “Five Ways”, five proofs for the existence of God which appear at the start of the Summa.
I generally haven’t been very impressed with the rebuttals of the Five Ways by the New Atheists. In the article below, Dr. William-Lane Craig reviews the Five Ways and looks at the typical criticisms of them he receives from New Atheists…
Wise Words on Wednesday: The principal act of courage
“The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them”
– St. Thomas Aquinas
Anecdotes about the dumb ox
I’m feeling kind of basic today, so what better than to have Peter Kreeft, one of my favourite philosophers, tell some stories about one of my favourite Saints, St. Thomas Aquinas?
St. Thomas Aquinas: Pro-Choice?
A friend of mine recently referred to the book “Good Church, Bad Church” by Tom Kane, a former Catholic priest. I read the synopsis on Amazon and read the extract on the author’s website. In the extract, a couple came to Kane while he was still a Catholic priest and he counseled them to have an abortion, calling upon St. Thomas Aquinas as justification:
“The great Catholic theologian, Saint Thomas Aquinas, whose theological reasoning is the foundation of Catholic morality, said that a fetus does not contain a soul until several months because there is not enough development yet to hold a soul, so the fetus, Thomas says, is not a person,” I said. “Yet the Vatican and the Vaticans of Protestantism would sacrifice an endless number of lives for a miniscule embryo that resembles an amoeba.”
“But the fetus has life,” he said.
“Yes, but what kind of life? Plant life? Animal life?” I said. “A fetus has a very primitive form of life—not yet a human life.”
My favourite meme from today
Today was the feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas, one of the greatest scholastic minds in the Church’s history. Despite his intellect, when he studied in Cologne his size and quiet nature earned him the nickname “The Dumb Ox”…
