Sister Matthaia Osswald's story of conversion to Orthodoxy: My Great Adventure in Search of the Truth
A Catholic can't help but scrutinize her reasons for converting, and the importance of the Divine Liturgy in the process.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Fr. Giertych has already been down to TAC. He will be in Berkeley next Tuesday. As my car is in the shop, I do not know if I will be able to attend, but I will post the video if it becomes available.
An interview of Wojciech Giertych, O.P. by the Province of St. Joseph.
Post-production for Master of the Sacred Palace was completed in May, but no news of when the DVD will be released. A post about him and his duties at Pro Unione.
His course on moral theology.
An interview of Wojciech Giertych, O.P. by the Province of St. Joseph.
Post-production for Master of the Sacred Palace was completed in May, but no news of when the DVD will be released. A post about him and his duties at Pro Unione.
His course on moral theology.
Friday, September 16, 2011
A typical NNLT appeal to "dignity"
Capital Punishment, Sanctity of Life, and Human Dignity by Christopher O. Tollefsen
Thursday, September 15, 2011
TED: Richard Resnick: Welcome to the genomic revolution
Haven't the reductionistic claims of geneticists been shown to be exaggerated already?
Record: LIVE chat with Lucianne Walkowicz on extrasolar planets and how that affects life on Earth, September 15, 1-3pm EDT.
Haven't the reductionistic claims of geneticists been shown to be exaggerated already?
Record: LIVE chat with Lucianne Walkowicz on extrasolar planets and how that affects life on Earth, September 15, 1-3pm EDT.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
TED: Kate Hartman: The art of wearable communication
TED ever going to have someone talk about using less energy?
TED ever going to have someone talk about using less energy?
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
"Upright"
Online Etymological Dictionary:
Another link between "straight" [right] and being morally good? The erect position is proper to man, not only because he is a biped but a quadruped, but the natural posture is what is healthy for him as well?
O.E. upriht, from up "up" + riht "right." Similar compounds are found in other Germanic languages (cf. O.Fris. upriucht, M.Du. oprecht, O.H.G. ufreht, Ger. aufrecht, O.N. uprettr). Figurative sense of "good, honest" is first attested 1520s. The noun in the sense of "something standing erect" is from 1742.
Another link between "straight" [right] and being morally good? The erect position is proper to man, not only because he is a biped but a quadruped, but the natural posture is what is healthy for him as well?
Monday, September 12, 2011
Should I get a copy?
Rick Garnett recommends Josef Pieper's The Christian Idea of Man. A short introductory work that probably isn't as thorough as his essays on the cardinal virtues?
Zenit:
Papal Address to Engaged Couples
"Educate Yourselves Henceforth in the Liberty of Fidelity" [2011-09-12]
"Educate Yourselves Henceforth in the Liberty of Fidelity" [2011-09-12]
Papal Homily at Close of Eucharistic Congress
"A Eucharistic Spirituality Is a Real Antidote to Individualism" [2011-09-11]
"A Eucharistic Spirituality Is a Real Antidote to Individualism" [2011-09-11]
On the Virgin's "Fiat"
The Risen Christ Is the "Source of Hope and Comfort for Daily Life" [2011-09-11]
The Risen Christ Is the "Source of Hope and Comfort for Daily Life" [2011-09-11]
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Saturday, September 10, 2011
The Smithy: Henry of Ghent on Aquinas and Existence
Henry of Ghent: "The first way of understanding the participation of a creature in being is mistaken; it is not an understanding but a phantastical imagination. For the essence of a creature should not be imagined like the air indifferent to obscurity and luminosity, but like a certain ray in itself apt to subsist, produced by the sun, not by the necessity of nature but by free will."
Isn't it rather petty to complain that an analogy is a phantastical imagination rather than an understanding?
But does Aquinas think that existence and nature are two separate things? How can they be distinct without being separate in reality? How is "real" to be understood? After all, St. Thomas's and the Thomistic understanding of the real distinction is what is at issue...
Henry of Ghent: "The first way of understanding the participation of a creature in being is mistaken; it is not an understanding but a phantastical imagination. For the essence of a creature should not be imagined like the air indifferent to obscurity and luminosity, but like a certain ray in itself apt to subsist, produced by the sun, not by the necessity of nature but by free will."
Isn't it rather petty to complain that an analogy is a phantastical imagination rather than an understanding?
Thomas' image of the air's illumination is an image of one sort of thing being poured into another sort of thing to make it actual in a certain way, but for Henry (and, I might add, the Franciscan tradition in general along with him) existence can't be understood as a different sort of thing than the existing nature and added to it in order that it can be.
But does Aquinas think that existence and nature are two separate things? How can they be distinct without being separate in reality? How is "real" to be understood? After all, St. Thomas's and the Thomistic understanding of the real distinction is what is at issue...
Friday, September 09, 2011
Discussion of Peter Moskos's book on punishment
Public Discourse: Flogging: The Best Hope for Our Broken Prison System? by Stefan McDaniel
More on the book.
More on the book.
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