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FRANCISCANS, on the whole, were less impeccably orthodox than Dominicans. Between the two orders there was keen rivalry, and the Franciscans were not inclined to accept the authority of Saint Thomas. The three most important of Franciscan philosophers were Roger Bacon, Duns Scotus, and William of Occam.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Meister Eckhart was both a brilliant speculative theologian and a majestically gifted writer. He was also given to expressing his more difficult ideas in almost willfully audacious language.
David Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
Catholic philosophy is essentially the philosophy of an institution, namely the Catholic Church; modern philosophy, even when it is far from orthodox, is largely concerned with problems, especially in ethics and political theory, which are derived from Christian views of the moral law and from Catholic doctrines as to the relations of Church and St
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Denys Turner writes, “In showing God to exist reason shows that we no longer know what ‘exists’ means.”
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Jefferson revised the Gospels to make Jesus more reasonable, and lost the power of his story.
Vinson Cunningham • What Thomas Jefferson Could Never Understand About Jesus
John O’Donohue, a former Irish Catholic priest, philosopher, poet, and, in his own words, mystic