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Saint Athanasius of Alexandria
Ryan Holiday • Stillness Is the Key
logic of appeals to authority.
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
sensus literalis.
R. C. Sproul • Knowing Scripture
The highest vocation of reason and of the will is to seek to know the ultimate source of that mystery.
David Bentley Hart • The Experience of God
THE life of Saint Augustine has a special appeal because he was a great sinner who became a great saint, and greatness is all the more admirable if it is achieved against odds.
Augustine • Confessions (Classics)
the other portrayals were, in a phrase of Fergus Kerr, “unavoidable anthropomorphisms.” See Kerr, After Aquinas, 77;
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Now every necessary thing either has a cause of its necessity from without, or has no such cause, but is necessary of itself. But we cannot go on to infinity in necessary things that have causes of their necessity from without. Therefore we must suppose some first necessary thing which is necessary of itself: and this is God, since He is the first
... See moreSaint Thomas Aquinas • The Summa Contra Gentiles (Illustrated)
“God,” to Thomas, is merely a label we place at the spot where we wonder, “Why is there something rather than nothing? What does it all mean? Why anything rather than nothing?” Aquinas knew he could not provide a fully satisfying answer. “God” is the label Christians use for the human question of “meaning.” As McCabe concludes, “We do not and canno
... See moreDale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
If any one is left out, it loses its virtue.