Saturday, 25 February 2017

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An interesting topic came up at our group last night .... Is 'water' simple or composite? Discussion of 'simple' here ...
Sunday, 31 July 2016

Blogger swallowing comments

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Blogger seems to be deleting comments rather than publishing them at the moment. So if you have posted a comment in the last few weeks and i...
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Sunday, 16 February 2014

Question 102 – The Location of Human Beings in Paradise

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Why this Question Matters What of the Garden of Eden itself? What was it and why does the Genesis account place the first human in paradise ...
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Saturday, 15 February 2014

Question 101 – The Condition of Progeny with Respect to Knowledge

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Why this Question Matters We saw Aquinas argue in 1a.q99.a1 for a natural development of bodily coordination for children born in the state ...

A Century!

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Woohoo! A hundred questions done. Only 402 to go... Or is it 503?

Question 100 – The Condition of Progeny with Respect to Justice

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Why this Question Matters Adam and Eve were created in a state of original justice . Would this supernatural gift of grace have been passed ...

Question 99 – The Physical Condition of Progeny

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Why this Question Matters The Garden of Eden before the fall was a place of grace and perfection for the first human beings. Would that perf...

Question 98 – Concerning the Conservation of the Species

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Why this Question Matters Aquinas has been concerned with aspects of Adam and Eve’s being as individuals in the state of innocence before th...
Sunday, 9 February 2014

Question 97 – Man’s Physical State in Paradise

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Why this Question Matters After consideration of the intellect and will of the first humans in the Garden of Eden, it is now time to turn th...
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Question 96 – Man’s Dominion in the Initial State of Innocence

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Why this Question Matters The Genesis account of creation records that God gave dominion over the rest of material creation to human beings ...
Wednesday, 29 January 2014

Question 95 – The First Man’s Will: Grace and Justice

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Why this Question Matters In the previous question, Aquinas discussed the state of the first human being’s intellects in the state of innoce...
Monday, 27 January 2014

Question 94 – The State of the First Man with Respect to Intellect.

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Preamble The final section of the Treatise on Man is dedicated to consideration of questions about the state of being of Adam and Eve in th...
Sunday, 26 January 2014

Question 93 – Man Made to the Image of God.

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Why this Question Matters “And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness”. These words of Genesis 1:26 have often fascinated exeget...
Monday, 20 January 2014

Question 92 – The Production of Woman.

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Why this Question Matters After the creation of Adam, it is natural for Aquinas to turn his attention to the creation of Eve. At the most fu...
Sunday, 12 January 2014

Question 91 – The Production of the First Man’s Body.

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Why this Question Matters Aquinas has treated of the creation of the human soul in Ia.q90. Now it is the turn of the human body. Was the fir...

Question 90 – The Production of Man with Respect to his Soul.

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Preamble Although Aquinas’s Treatise on Human Nature extends from question 75 through to question 102, one often finds commentaries on this...
Sunday, 5 January 2014

Question 89 – A Separated Soul’s Cognition.

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Why this Question Matters So far in the Treatise on Human Nature , Aquinas has been almost exclusively concerned with the operations of the ...
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