Thinkers like the theologian Thomas Aquinas sought a way of containing war, by thinking through the desperate feelings that combat does and should evoke. ...

The final point, also following Aquinas, is "The evaluation of these conditions for moral legitimacy belongs to the prudential judgment of those who have ...

... the Catholic conception of "natural law," greatly influenced by the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas. Those who cite natural law seek to bolster arguments ...

Aside from an almost pathological veneration of the Virgin Mary, church fathers - ranging from Tertullian to Jerome to Thomas Aquinas to the recent popes ...

In this groundbreaking new report on the long-running and (of late) controversial BBC Radio 4 Thought for the Day feature, researcher Lizzie Clifford moves forward the debate about whether the prime-time ‘God slot’ should be preserved, reformed or abolished by carrying out a careful examination of the actual broadcast scripts themselves – with surprising results.

Thinkers like the theologian Thomas Aquinas sought a way of containing war, by thinking through the desperate feelings that combat does and should evoke. ...

... the Catholic conception of "natural law," greatly influenced by the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas. Those who cite natural law seek to bolster arguments ...

Aside from an almost pathological veneration of the Virgin Mary, church fathers - ranging from Tertullian to Jerome to Thomas Aquinas to the recent popes ...

... Ignatius J. Reilly, in “Confederacy of Dunces” – combative towards modern culture and nostalgic for the halcyon days of Thomas Aquinas. ...

Over the years, many other arguments have been put forward to exclude women from ordination. Thomas Aquinas, for instance, could find no theological reason ...

Now in case you're confused as to which personal interpretation to follow, here's an interesting related comment from Thomas Aquinas on the same passage. Note his description of Jerome's fourth argument, that Paul only pretended to ...

This time I am actually going to refute some of my own arguments, a technique borrowed in part from St Thomas Aquinas, famous for presenting his theology, and then immediately answering possible objections to it. ...

The word does not have quite such a full-blooded meaning now as it had in the times of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas. In those days, if a man said that he was a Christian it was known what he meant. You accepted a whole ... Perhaps the simplest and easiest to understand is the argument of the First Cause. (It is maintained that everything we see in this world has a cause, and as you go back in the chain of causes further and further you must come to a First Cause, ...

I think the existence of people like this is an utter empirical refutation of the moralistic argument. Religion doesn't provide morality, but rather replaces it with something else. Religious "morality" not even the objective ethics it .... And then I discovered that "this douchebag" is none other than St. Thomas Aquinas. :) Here he is: "In every genus, worst of all is the corruption of the principle on which the rest depend. Now the principles of reason are those things ...

Special care is needed when we engage such a sophisticated mind like Thomas Aquinas to ensure accuracy when presenting his definitions, analysis and arguments. Obvious, checking the original sources shows that Tawfik and Mohd Sani ...