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November 2014

November 26, 2014

CT 17: God Neither the Form of a Body nor a Force in a Body

We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....

November 03, 2014

CT 16: God Not A Body

We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....

October 2014

October 28, 2014

CT 15: The Unicity of God

We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....

October 13, 2014

Some Anecdotes about St. Thomas Aquinas

One of my FaceBook friends commented the other day that she had trouble liking St....

September 2014

September 22, 2014

CT 13: God Not A Genus

We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....

September 15, 2014

CT 12: God Not Contained Under Any Genus

We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....

September 08, 2014

CT 11: Identity of Essence and Existence in God

We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....

September 01, 2014

CT 10.3: Essence is no Accident

We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....

August 2014

August 25, 2014

CT 10.2: Thomist Taxonomy, or What’s a Species?

We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....

August 18, 2014

CT 10.1: Identity of God with His Essence

We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....

August 11, 2014

CT 9: Simplicity of God

We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....

August 04, 2014

CT 8: Absence of Succession in God

We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....

July 2014

July 28, 2014

CT 7: The Everlasting Existence of God

We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....

June 2014

June 30, 2014

CT 6: Necessity of God’s Existence

We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....

June 23, 2014

CT 5: The Eternity of God

We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....

June 16, 2014

CT 4.2: Another Principle of Change

We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....

June 10, 2014

Review: Scholastic Metaphysics, by Ed Feser

Prof. Ed Feser's latest book is Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction. I think enough of...

June 09, 2014

CT 4.1: The Immobility of God

We're blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas' Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the...

June 02, 2014

It’s Worse Than That, It’s Physics, Jim!

I'm taking a short break from St. Thomas Aquinas to talk about the Aristotelian underpinnings...

May 2014

May 26, 2014

CT 3.4: The End of the Causal Chain

In which we see what's at the end of the causal chain. Continuing my look...

May 12, 2014

CT 3.2, The Heavenly Bodies

Continuing my look at Chapter 3 of the Compendium Theologiae. The complete series is here....

May 06, 2014

CT 3.1, The Existence of God

Continuing my series on Aquinas; find the rest here. Now, preliminaries settled, we dive into...

April 2014

April 28, 2014

CT 2: Thomas Takes on Faith

Thomas always likes to start by giving the reader an outline of what he’s about...

April 22, 2014

CT 1: Thomas’ Plan of Attack

This post is part of a series. In Chapter 1 of the Compendium Theologiae, Thomas...

April 17, 2014

The Peril of First Principles

It was in college that I first learned the peril of reasoning from first principles....

April 15, 2014

A Compendium of Simplicity—Wait, What?

Towards the end of his life, Thomas Aquinas began his third summary of the theology...

April 14, 2014

Blogging Aquinas

I've been finding myself wanting to write more about philosophy recently, partially because of my...

November 2013

November 15, 2013

Woof Guide to Popular Music: Thomas Aquinas

Dominican philosopher Scholasticism was his game Summa Theologica Aquinas was his name. Well, OK, I...

November 14, 2013

The Human Wisdom of St. Thomas, by Josef Pieper

In 1948, Josef Pieper published a selection of short texts from the writings of St....

November 05, 2013

The Pony Principle

Many years ago I formulated what I call the Pony Principle, which is this: if...