“no way does God subvert or replace the act of his creatures. Instead, God “always governs things in such a way that it is they that really perform their own operations . . . creatures, from the very fact that they are, must be endowed with efficiency.”13 Aquinas goes further. He suggests that if God alone were the immediate cause of everything it “would imply” not God’s greatness, but, instead a “lack of power in the Creator: for it is due to the power of the cause, that it bestows active power on its effect.”14 Christianity, or at least in its Catholic fullness, is “an integral and solidary humanism,”15 and “the name for that deep amazement at man’s worth and dignity is the Gospel, that is to say: the Good News. It is also called Christianity.”16”
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Acedia and Its Discontents: Metaphysical Boredom in an Empire of Desire
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