by Rory O'Donnell | Aug 29, 2019 | Guest Blogs, Latest, Philosophy
In his great work the “Summa Theologiae,” Thomas Aquinas discusses the will of God and asks two very similar questions: (1) Is what is willed by God necessarily willed? And (2) Does God have free will? Aquinas teaches that there is one thing that God wills...
by Andrew Haines | Aug 27, 2019 | Latest, Philosophy, Transcendental Desires
Saint Augustine is one of the most intriguing figures in the two-thousand-year history of Christianity. He represents misspent youth, passionate romance, a deep conversion, and ultimately a profound, compelling Christian faith. It’s a hard story not to fall in love...
by Carol Lynn Miller | Aug 25, 2019 | Latest, Philosophy, Transcendental Desires, Virtue & Freedom
In previous posts, we discussed intellectual and moral conversion: intellectual conversion has to do with knowledge of God and moral conversion focuses on the practice of moral actions directing one toward the good and away from evil. The last, and certainly not...
by Carol Lynn Miller | Aug 5, 2019 | Latest, Philosophy, Transcendental Desires, Virtue & Freedom
This article is part of a three-part series on conversion first articulated here. In a previous post, it was mentioned that the human person possesses two “selves,” that is, the higher self and the lower self. The higher self is guided by reason and love and the...
by Maggie Ciskanik, M.S. | Aug 2, 2019 | God & Modern Physics, Latest, Philosophy, Science, Reason & Faith
“But today it is very hard for a scientific man to say where the supernatural ends and the natural begins, or what name should be given to either.” -G. K. Chesterton, “The New Jerusalem” Chesterton wrote this line at the beginning of the 20th century, shortly after...
by Carol Lynn Miller | Jul 22, 2019 | Philosophy, Transcendental Desires, Virtue & Freedom
This article is part of a three-part series first articulated here. In his teaching on Truth, St. Thomas Aquinas tells us that the object of the intellect is Truth. In correspondence, an intellectual conversion would have to do with the intellect’s discovery and...
