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“our manner of knowing is so weak that no philosopher could perfectly investigate the nature of even one little fly.”
― The Catechetical Instructions
― The Catechetical Instructions
“The world tempts us either by attaching us to it in prosperity, or by filling us with fear of adversity. But faith overcomes this in that we believe in a life to come better than this one, and hence we despise the riches of this world and we are not terrified in the face of adversity.”
― The Catechetical Instructions
― The Catechetical Instructions
“Thomas seems to be implying a threefold, originally Neoplatonic, model that he would have known through the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius, comprising (1) God in God-self; (2) the exitus, or procession of creatures from God; and finally (3) the reditus, or the return of creatures to God.”
― Thomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae: A Biography
― Thomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae: A Biography
“The Summa Theologiae is not, as is sometimes supposed, a potpourri of theology and philosophy; it is wholly a Summa of Theology concerned with the Sacra Doctrina, the Holy Teaching of salvation given by God’s revelation.”
― Aquinas's Summa Theologiae
― Aquinas's Summa Theologiae
Bruce Paolozzi’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Bruce Paolozzi’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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