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It is because I feel myself to be substance that is to say, permanent in the midst of my changes that I attribute substantiality to those agents exterior to me, which are also permanent in the midst of their changes just as the concept of force is born of my sensation of personal effort in putting a thing in motion. Read carefully in the first part of the Summa Theologica of St.
There are endless instances of this disuniting influence to be seen, in the contempt of learning for ignorance, the derisive attitude which knowledge assumes toward simplicity, the metropolitan disdain for provincial Galilee, the rabies theologica which is ever ready to declare that this people that knoweth not the law is accursed. It is love, not logic, which can unite men.
It is advocacy, or what amounts to the same thing, theology, that teaches the distrust of reason not true science, not the science of investigation, sceptical in the primitive and direct meaning of the word, which hastens towards no predetermined solution nor proceeds save by the testing of hypotheses. Take the Summa Theologica of St.
On the general subject, Walchius's Bibliotheca Theologica Selecta, may be usefully consulted.
Dr. Vaughan, in eulogistic language, says: "The 'Summa Theologica' may be likened to one of the great cathedrals of the Middle Ages, infinite in detail but massive in the grouping of pillars and arches, forming a complete unity that must have taxed the brain of the architect to its greatest extent.
The doctrines of Christianity were by that time so firmly established that the Church could look upon a symbolical or mystical interpretation of them without anxiety. The author of the Theologica Mystica and the other works ascribed to the Areopagite proceeds, therefore, to develop the doctrines of Proclus with very little modification into a system of esoteric Christianity.
These Lectures were translated into the English language by Charles I. during his confinement in the Isle of Wight, and printed at London, in 1655 8vo. VI. "DE OBLIGATIONE CONSCIENTIÆ PRÆLECTIONES DECEM OXONII in SCHOLA THEOLOGICA HABITÆ, anno Dom.
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