In this episode of Pints With Aquinas we’ll see what St. Thomas has to say about Christ’s ascension. Was it reasonable that Christ should ascend into Heaven? And how is it profitable?
Archives for May 2017
What does it meant to say that God’s essence is existence? With Fr. Damian Ference
56.5: Is porn harmful? Matt Fradd vs. Charlottee Rose and Adam Scarborough
In this podcast I share a recent radio debate I participated in on the topic, is pornography harmful? After the podcast I share my reflections on the debate.
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56: What are the 4 causes of Aristotle? How do they apply to your 5 ways?
Today we look at Aristotle’s 4 causes and see how they apply to Aquinas’ 5 proofs for the existence of God.
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55: What does it mean to fear the Lord?
If faith casts out fear and fear is the beginning of wisdom, does that mean faith casts out the beginning of wisdom?
We’ll talk about three types of fear: servile, filial, and reverential.
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Fear is a movement of the appetitive power, as stated above (I-II:41:1). Now the principle of all appetitive movements is the good or evil apprehended: and consequently the principle of fear and of every appetitive movement must be an apprehension. Again, through faith there arises in us an apprehension of certain penal evils, which are inflicted in accordance with the Divine judgment. On this way, then, faith is a cause of the fear whereby one dreads to be punished by God; and this is servile fear.
It is also the cause of filial fear, whereby one dreads to be separated from God, or whereby one shrinks from equalling oneself to Him, and holds Him in reverence, inasmuch as faith makes us appreciate God as an unfathomable and supreme good, separation from which is the greatest evil, and to which it is wicked to wish to be equalled. Of the first fear, viz. servile fear, lifeless faith is the cause, while living faith is the cause of the second, viz. filial fear, because it makes man adhere to God and to be subject to Him by charity.
ST II-II, Q. 7, A. 1.