Posts on the topic of Theology
Thomas Aquinas is notoriously difficult to understand for beginners in philosophy/theology. In this post I give a few tips to help you get through the beginning phase of getting acquainted with this thinker.
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In this post I look at the fact that AI is and always will be fundamentally unintelligent because it lacks a core component: a soul. We are unique creatures. The soul gives us understanding and free will – something that we cannot give to machines.
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My review: I read this book after noting that Alain de Botton is a very interesting person. He made this apparent to me in his book entitled “The Architecture of Happiness”. When I saw “Religion for Atheists” on the shelf, I just had to see what a person like Alain had to say about religion
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My review: If only everybody wrote as lucidly and beautifully as Benedict. What rare qualities for an academic. His style is simply sublime, whether you agree with him or not. I, on my part, do agree with him. As benedict writes, what he is presenting in this book is his “personal search ‘for the face
Jesus of Nazareth by Benedict XVI – Review Read More »
My review: I read this book just coming off reading Newman’s Apologia Pro Vita Sua. And I’m glad I did this because otherwise I would not have been able to appreciate enough what Ian Ker is trying to convey through his work: that Newman’s theology was very influential at Vatican II and how it should still be
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My review: Boy , this guy was a master rhetorician. Woe to anybody who stood in his way. And woe to Charles Kingsley who felt the brunt of Newman’s force of reasoning. Henry Newman wrote this book in response to Kingsley’s accusations of him being a two-faced, dishonorable liar when Newman converted to the Catholic
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“The council focuses its attention on the world of men, the whole human family along with the sum of those realities in the midst of which it lives” (GS 2). One such reality the Council discusses in Gaudium et Spes is that of technology. There is no doubt that technology has changed profoundly the “circumstances
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“All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture”. With these words Pope John Paul II begins paragraph 51 of his encyclical Centesimus Annus. It is clear, then, that the pope sees the importance of culture in all the forms and facets of human life. Paragraph 51, however, is located in the
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There is great debate in the contemporary world whether life exists after death. Influential secular ‘thinkers’ such as Stephen Hawking or Richard Dawkins assert that no such thing is possible and lead masses to a pessimistic view of their lives. In fact, it can lead one to despair because if there is nothingness after physical
The Bible and the Church on Ensoulment and the Immortality of the Soul Read More »
There are two known views pertaining to the teachings of Thomas Aquinas on prudence in the Summa Theologiae. One is proclaimed by R.-A. Gauthier who argues that while Aquinas uses Aristotelian terminology to formulate his teachings on prudence, he does so by violently misreading Aristotle. The other common view is that Thomas’s doctrine of prudence
An Analysis of Robert C. Miner’s “Non-Aristotelian Prudence in the Prima Secundae” Read More »