The Medieval MindContent: New Religious Orientation - Christianity: the Formative years - Augustine: God the Creator - Augustine: the Created Universe - Medieval interval - Thomas: Metaphysics - Thomas: Psychology, ethics, Politics - End of the Middle ages. |
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... ESSENCE This is an extremely important theorem , but , unfortunately , it is a very difficult one for modern minds to understand . Let us begin by recalling that for Thomas , as for Aristotle , " essence " was the that - about - a ...
... ESSENCE This is an extremely important theorem , but , unfortunately , it is a very difficult one for modern minds to understand . Let us begin by recalling that for Thomas , as for Aristotle , " essence " was the that - about - a ...
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... essence ) , knowledge of the Sophistic movement , and so on . It is fair to say that this condition , or limitation , results from the fact that no finite thing such as Socrates is its own essence . Essence , we must remember , is the ...
... essence ) , knowledge of the Sophistic movement , and so on . It is fair to say that this condition , or limitation , results from the fact that no finite thing such as Socrates is its own essence . Essence , we must remember , is the ...
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... essence , but we cannot know what that essence is . GOD IS PERFECT It follows from the fact that God is His own essence that He is completely actual . Since there is nothing outside God on which His existence depends , His nature is ...
... essence , but we cannot know what that essence is . GOD IS PERFECT It follows from the fact that God is His own essence that He is completely actual . Since there is nothing outside God on which His existence depends , His nature is ...
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The Formative Years | 38 |
John and the Logos Mystery | 50 |
Heresy and Orthodoxy | 60 |
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