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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... virtue , they are no longer to be reckoned as a good but as an evil . Hence it happens that the possession of riches is good for some who use them for virtue : while to others it is an evil , because they are withdrawn thereby from virtue ...
... virtue , they are no longer to be reckoned as a good but as an evil . Hence it happens that the possession of riches is good for some who use them for virtue : while to others it is an evil , because they are withdrawn thereby from virtue ...
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... virtue ; but the perfection of virtue must be acquired by man by means of some kind of training . . . . A man needs to receive this training from another , whereby to arrive at the perfection of virtue . And as to those young people who ...
... virtue ; but the perfection of virtue must be acquired by man by means of some kind of training . . . . A man needs to receive this training from another , whereby to arrive at the perfection of virtue . And as to those young people who ...
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... virtue , is a product of grace and has therefore to wait on God's will . Now to prepare oneself for grace is , as it were , to be turned to God ; just as whoever has his eyes turned away from the light of the sun prepares himself to ...
... virtue , is a product of grace and has therefore to wait on God's will . Now to prepare oneself for grace is , as it were , to be turned to God ; just as whoever has his eyes turned away from the light of the sun prepares himself to ...
Contents
The Formative Years | 38 |
John and the Logos Mystery | 50 |
Heresy and Orthodoxy | 60 |
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Abelard according actually animal argument Aristotle Aristotle's Augustine Augustine's authority Bacon believed body called cause century Christ Christian Church City of God conceived conception course created creature distinction divine doctrine Donatists Duns Duns's Empire essence eternal ethics evil existence experience fact faith Father finite follows Gnostics God's grace Greek held Hence human Ibid individual instance intellect Jesus Jesus movement Jews kind knowledge live Lord man's Manichees matter means medieval merely metaphysical Middle Ages mind Mithraism moral moved movement mystic nature Neoplatonism notion object Occam orthodoxy particular Paul Pelagians perfect philosophical Plato Plotinus point of view possible principle problem Ques question rational reality reason salvation seems sense Socrates soul spirit substance Summa Contra Gentiles Summa Theologica Thee theology theory things Thomas Thomistic Thou thought truth understand universe unmoved mover virtue whole words Yahweh