This is Thomism

Come see, hear, and read this year's St. Thomas Day lecture from the California campus, “Recovering the Substance of Eucharistic Doctrine,” by Dr. Joshua Hochschild @MSMU https://t.co/B0XJ7hsgoP pic.twitter.com/PpArunIWDJ

— ThomasAquinasCollege (@TACollege) March 26, 2024

Gorman's Book on Metaphysics

Michael Gorman's forthcoming A Contemporary Introduction to Thomistic Metaphysics is sure to be a must-read https://t.co/Fyzg8KpL72 #Amazon via @Amazon

— Edward Feser (@FeserEdward) February 22, 2024

Metaphysics or Physics?

My latest book: https://t.co/y1Hp1afDRZ

— robkoons (@robkoons) August 22, 2022

The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics

Today's reading: pic.twitter.com/i6bKqY7605

— Timothy Troutner (@troutsky_) June 29, 2022

OUP: The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics: Patristic Philosophy from the Cappadocian Fathers to John of Damascus by Johannes Zachhuber

Klima's Recovery of Form

Gyula Klima's recent lecture, describing his "historical-analytical metaphysical" project of recovering the notion of *form* as the "conceptual keystone" in the scholastic "cathedral of thought"https://t.co/Ouc8nWKWEu

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) November 26, 2021

More Genealogy

Wynand De Beer’s recent book Reality: From Metaphysics to Metapolitics is clearly relevant to a host of contemporary issues and has much to offer Catholics who find themselves living in a nominalist civilization.https://t.co/P4BYHZG7gP

— Catholic World Report (@cworldreport) October 4, 2021

Wipf and Stock

Stephen Barr's Mathematical Physics

The Multiverse and the Prevalence of Anthropic Coincidences in Recent Physics https://t.co/a0yIoAKoqt Stephen Barr is always impressive!

— John Cavadini (@JohnCavadini) September 7, 2021

Budapest Eucharist Conference

Very excited for this pic.twitter.com/855Z0Gi7a8

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) August 27, 2021

The Philosophy of Realism

The Philosophy of Realism w/ Dr. @realbriankemple https://t.co/IhyVph7blX via @YouTube

— Patrick Flynn (@PatFlynnCOS) July 13, 2021

Wisdom and First Principles According to Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.

Now free to the public: a lecture by the rightly-lauded translator of Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Dr. Matthew Minerd, on Wisdom and First Principles in the inestimable Thomist's philosophy. https://t.co/AS7VhlrIjl

— Brian Kemple (@realbriankemple) May 15, 2021

One Take on Personalism

Since tonight was so relevant, if anyone is somehow interested in my own thoughts on the individual-personal distinction and personalism in general, you can read more here. https://t.co/kcRsCL0tFl

— Taylor Patrick O'Neill (@thomaesplendor) April 28, 2021

Hochschild on the Proof for the Existence of God

Wherein I prove the existence of God and then talk about more interesting and important things....

Now online, my March talk for the UT El Paso chapter of the @ThomisticInsthttps://t.co/GSePC4Noiw

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) April 23, 2021

An Outdated Metaphysical Explanation

Another eucharistic clarification: The accidents of bread and wine do not become accidents of Christ’s body and blood. Rather, by a miracle, they become accidents inhering in no substance (with all the other accidents inhering in dimensive quantity as their ultimate subject). ...

— Urban Hannon (@hannonregular) February 20, 2021

Does God Make Us Precious?

Or is our "worth" or goodness a result of God's creative act?

We possess a great wealth that depends on what we are: the life we have received, the good within us, the indelible beauty God has given us by making us in his image. All these things make each of us precious in his eyes, each one of us is priceless and unique in history.

— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) January 12, 2021

Eucharistia and Prayer

Is receiving God through Holy Communion greater than receiving God through prayer? https://t.co/TwA1jepeoX

— OCN (@MyOCN) December 17, 2020

Question: Is receiving God through Holy Communion greater than receiving God through prayer?

Answer: We receive God through grace and grace comes to us in many ways. It comes when we invoke His Name with reverence and humility; when we pray and live by the word of God; when we receive Holy Communion with the testimony of a good conscience. We accumulate grace in every instant of our life, if we meet our fellows with a good heart, respect and honour. There are many means of acquiring the grace of God in order to preserve our heart alive with the sensation of God, and this is essential: for as long as our heart is warmed up by the grace of God, no alien thought can approach us and we are unassailable by the enemy.

We are able to invoke His Name with reverence and humility thanks to God's grace. The following answer has a more exact elucidation of our total dependence on God.

Question: I have a philosophical proud mind. How can we acquire stillness if we are proud?

Answer: Pride seems to accompany every our attempt to present ourselves before God in prayer and come close to Him. The most practical way to acquire humility is continual thanksgiving. The Spirit of God always inspires gratitude (1 Cor. 2:12). Father Sophrony makes a distinction between spiritual humility and ascetical humility. Ascetical humility consists of always reproaching and considering ourselves as worse than all, as we are commanded in the Gospel: ‘When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do’ (Luke 17:10). As for spiritual humility, it is indescribable. It is granted to those who have already contemplated the beauty of the Risen Lord, the Light of His Face, which wounds them with the deep conviction that they are unworthy of such a loving God as Christ is.

I do note that he doesn't really answer the first question.

A Review of Aristotle's Revenge

'Goodness was no longer an explanatory feature of reality, but was merely expressive of our desires'

Aristotle’s metaphysics of nature (@thomaspink1) https://t.co/xwNaOTZHTd

— The TLS (@TheTLS) November 5, 2020

A Debate on God's Existence

Just watched a great debate on God's existence between Fr. Gregory Pine (@ThomisticInst) and Ben Watkins of (@RealAtheology). It's as cordial and thoughtful as my debate with @cosmicskeptic (if not even more so!). Keep up these great debates @mattfradd! https://t.co/5YnRN80lRi

— Trent Horn (@Trent_Horn) September 2, 2020

Plotinus as Progress

All this suggests that a Trinitarian ontology will naturally tend to revise Aristotle. Perhaps even more than Aquinas did, though he did revise Aristotelian metaphysics both neoplatonically and for doctrinal reasons. (As neo-Thomism ignores.)

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) July 26, 2020

For Plato and Plotinus there are five genres of being, rest, motion, same and other that are really more like transcendentals. In fully real intelligible reality they fully coincide. In material reality they more tend to exclude each other and come in degrees.

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) July 26, 2020

Plotinus also questions Aristotle’s distinction of action and making. For him even action as thought moves, goes out from itself, emanates. Augustine and Aquinas’s thought on verbum is jn this lineage. (Lonergan totally wrong here.)

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) July 26, 2020

Aquinas 101 Live: Wisdom and Metaphysics - Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.

An Endorsement of Participation in God

Well, folks, I just finished @AP_Davison’s truly excellent book on participation. It is comprehensive and clear and readable. I learned a great deal from it and so I have no doubt that it will be *the* major resource on the subject for the foreseeable future. pic.twitter.com/vIShgk5FHn

— Matthew Rothaus Moser (@M_Rothaus_Moser) May 28, 2020