Summa Theologica, Volume 4 (Part III, First Section)"The Summa Theologica is the best-known work of Italian philosopher, scholar, and Dominican friar SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS (1225 1274), widely considered the Catholic Church s greatest theologian. Famously consulted (immediately after the Bible) on religious questions at the Council of Trent, Aquinas s masterpiece has been considered a summary of official Church philosophy ever since. Aquinas considers approximately 10,000 questions on Church doctrine covering the roles and nature of God, man, and Jesus, then lays out objections to Church teachings and systematically confronts each, using Biblical verses, theologians, and philosophers to bolster his arguments. In Volume IV, Aquinas addresses: chastity and lust sobriety and humility pride prophecy and Rapture the passion of Christ Christ s resurrection the sacraments and much more. This massive work of scholarship, spanning five volumes, addresses just about every possible query or argument that any believer or atheist could have, and remains essential, more than seven hundred years after it was written, for clergy, religious historians, and serious students of Catholic thought." |
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... fore continence is a greater virtue than tem- perance . On the contrary , Tully ( De Inv . Rhet . ii . 54 ) and Andronicus * reckon continence to be annexed to temperance , as to a principal virtue . I answer that , As stated above ( A ...
... fore continence is a greater virtue than tem- perance . On the contrary , Tully ( De Inv . Rhet . ii . 54 ) and Andronicus * reckon continence to be annexed to temperance , as to a principal virtue . I answer that , As stated above ( A ...
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... fore incontinence pertains to the flesh rather than to the soul . On the contrary , Man differs from beast chiefly as regards the soul . Now they differ in respect of continence and incontinence , for we ascribe neither continence nor ...
... fore incontinence pertains to the flesh rather than to the soul . On the contrary , Man differs from beast chiefly as regards the soul . Now they differ in respect of continence and incontinence , for we ascribe neither continence nor ...
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... fore meekness and clemency are not abso- lutely the same . I answer that , As stated in Ethic . ii . 3 , a moral virtue is about passions and actions . Now internal passions are principles of ex- ternal actions , and are likewise ...
... fore meekness and clemency are not abso- lutely the same . I answer that , As stated in Ethic . ii . 3 , a moral virtue is about passions and actions . Now internal passions are principles of ex- ternal actions , and are likewise ...
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... fore pride is not a mortal sin . Obj . 3. Further , every mortal sin is op- posed to virtue . But pride is not opposed to virtue ; on the contrary , it arises therefrom , for as Gregory says ( Moral . xxxiv . 23 ) , some- times a man is ...
... fore pride is not a mortal sin . Obj . 3. Further , every mortal sin is op- posed to virtue . But pride is not opposed to virtue ; on the contrary , it arises therefrom , for as Gregory says ( Moral . xxxiv . 23 ) , some- times a man is ...
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... fore Augustine says in his Rule ( Ep . ccxii ) : In all your movements let nothing be done to offend the eye of any person whatever . There- fore it seems that this kind of inordinateness should also have been forbidden by a precept of ...
... fore Augustine says in his Rule ( Ep . ccxii ) : In all your movements let nothing be done to offend the eye of any person whatever . There- fore it seems that this kind of inordinateness should also have been forbidden by a precept of ...
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Page 340 - Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
Page 293 - Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou earnest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Page 226 - Jesus : who, being in the form of God, counted it not a prize to be on an equality with God, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men...
Page 351 - Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 27 - He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross. For which cause God also hath exalted him, and hath given him a name which is above all names: that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth: and that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.
Page 8 - For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy : for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
Page 24 - Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
Page 174 - For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Page 195 - Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
Page xx - For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.