29 Saturday Mar 2008
Posted in Christology, Philosophy
In the study of Christology, St. Thomas’ use of Aristotelian natural science helps to avoid two extremes: 1) the neo-modernist “Christology from below” with its Nestorian and Arian tendencies and 2) the Monophysitism implicit in any theology which denigrates our Lord’s Sacred Humanity. The key concept in Aristotelian philosophy ad rem to this subject is the “analogy of being.” Continue reading
01 Saturday Mar 2008
Posted in Philosophy
The assignment: “Explain how modern ideas about the relation of body to soul have affected the Biblical idea of the human person.”
To answer this question, we must first explain the Biblical idea itself. Father Ashley states that human persons are “beings who are at one time material and spiritual, and made in the likeness of God, who is pure spirit, but who is the Creator of matter and our body.” Continue reading
21 Thursday Feb 2008
Posted in Philosophy
Of the three major approaches to Epistemology, (also known as “Major Logic,” or “Criteriology,” i.e., that philosophical discipline which studies the theory of knowledge), two constitute opposite, erroneous poles, while the third strikes a happy medium between them. Continue reading