A tour through Saint Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Contra Gentiles.
Previous post. Some common mistakes about baptism and the Eucharist, which are given this week and corrected next. Some of these are, to us, obviously bad. Some are subtler. ON THE ERROR […]
Previous post. Two short chapters on sacraments this week. ON CONFIRMATION 1 The perfection of spiritual strength consists properly in a man’s daring to confess the faith of Christ in the presence […]
Previous post. The old formalisms of the law have become transformed into the new law. ON BAPTISM 1 In this way, then, one can discern in the individual sacraments the proper effect […]
Previous post. The old formalisms of the law have become transformed into the new law. ON THE NUMBER OF THE SACRAMENTS OF THE NEW LAW 1 However, since the spiritual remedies of […]
God became a man, lived among us, laid down his life for us—we murdered God himself—he was resurrected, ascended into Heaven, and asked us to eat his flesh and drink his blood. […]
Previous post. The old formalisms of the law have become transformed into the new law. THE DISTINCTION OF THE SACRAMENTS OF THE OLD AND THE NEW LAW 1 Next, this must be […]
Previous post. Given the Incarnation, crucifixion, and Resurrection happened, it follows the Church is required. ON THE NECESSITY OF THE SACRAMENTS 1 Since, however (as has already been said), the death of […]
Previous post. Part II, and part last, of the rebuttals of the objections against the incarnation. This chapter is what we of a mathematical mind call long. ANSWER TO THE ARGUMENTS PREVIOUSLY […]
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