tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-128777612011-07-28T14:27:43.007-04:00An Electronic Studium for the discussion of Scholastic Philosophy and Theology: with a special focus on the Book of Sentences of Master Peter Lombard, and his great commentators, e.g. St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Bonaventure, Bl. John Duns Scotus, etc..Br. Alexis Bugnolohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07268796826518693583noreply@blogger.comBlogger891100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12877761.post-1169399671370712662007-01-21T12:11:00.000-05:002007-04-07T12:39:26.696-04:00

I recently completed the first English translation of St. Bonaventure's Commentaries on the First Book of Sentences of Master Peter Lombard.You can obtain a copy of the work, with the original Latin texts on a CD-R for $25. For more information see:http://www.franciscan-archive.org/publications.html

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Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,The season of Christmas is nearly upon us, and I beg you to consider helping some poor franciscans who have no place to live.I am speaking about the franciscans and the vocations who want to live the traditional observance of the Rule of St. Francis, but who cannot do so in the Order of Friars minor because this is a very hateful thing to the superiors of the

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(POSTED Nov. 20, 2006, www.RemnantNewspaper.com) For traditionalist Catholics nothing is more symptomatic of the crisis in the Church than the deliberate mistranslation of pro vobis et pro multis—for you and for many—as “for you and for all” in vernacular renderings of the Latin typical edition of the Mass of Paul VI by local episcopal conferences and the ICEL. This error, which falsely suggests

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There is a very great misunderstanding today about what constitutes an authentic miracle, sufficient for the determination of whether a deceased Catholic is a saint.A miracle strictly speaking is any divine intervention which manifests itself as such by the accomplishement of that which is beyond the order of nature. There are miracles which are beyond the order of nature, inasmuch as they

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The recent assault upon Limbo's existence is at its root an attack upon the Primacy of Christ.At first sight it does not appear thus.The Modernists want to overthrow the exclusivity of salvation proposed by authentic Catholic Doctrine, because they hold, according to St. Pius X (Pascendi Dominici gregis) a notion of the supernatural which is in fact a interior religious sense, that is a natural

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In 1939 Hans urs Von Valthasar, S. J., published "Patristik, Scholastik und wir": Theologie der Zeit (English translation by Edward T. Oakes, S.J. : Communio, n. 24, September 1997). In it he set forth his own theory of theological historicism, in which he undermined the objective basis of theological inquiry taught by the Fathers and great Scholastic Theologians, so as to advance the cause of

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by Father Garrigou Lagrange O.P.,professor of Dogmatic and Mystical Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas, Rome, writing in his book, The Three Ages of the Interior Life, translated from the Italian version published by LICE, Turin, 1949, vol. 1, p. 180, footnote 2, in his discourse on the Theological Virtue of Charity:"There in fact exits a false charity, which arises from culpable

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The Pope has stunned the world, by telling the theologians who are working to do away with Limbo, that their duty is to keep their mouths shut, rather than speak anything contrary to the Faith.VATICAN CITY, OCT 6, 2006 (VIS) - This morning in the Redemptoris Mater Chapel, in the Vatican, the Holy Father concelebrated mass with the participants of the International Theological Commission.In this

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The recent article in the Times (see link in title above) puts the heresy of universal salvationism in explicit terms:This week a 30-strong Vatican international commission of theologians, which has been examining limbo, began its final deliberations. Vatican sources said it had concluded that all children who die do so in the expectation of “the universal salvation of God” and the “mediation of

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A. D. Sept. 12, 2006Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen,It is a moving experience for me to stand and give a lecture at this university podium once again. I think back to those years when, after a pleasant period at the Freisinger Hochschule, I began teaching at the University of Bonn. This was in 1959, in the days of the old university made up of ordinary professors. The various chairs had

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Such great saints as St. Thomas and St. Alphonsus, teach that for an action to be morally good, and hence pleasing to God, and thus have value in and for the Social Reign of Jesus Christ, it must have a threefold goodness: it must be an act that is not evil in itself, good in its end, and not evil in its circumstances.It must be not evil in itself:Every moral action can be classified as to its

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by Frank M. Rega"Science, my son, for all its greatness, is still an inferior thing; it is less than nothing when compared to the formidable mystery of Divinity." (St. Padre Pio)In an address by Pope John Paul II to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on October 22, 1996, entitled "Truth Cannot Contradict Truth," 1 the Holy Father made this controversial statement: "...new knowledge has led to the

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There have been controversies in the USA since the time before Father Leonard Feeney, S.J., about the necessity of baptism. I present here my translation of part of St. Alphonsus's tract on Baptism, which clearly shows why that which Father Feeney opposed was itself erroneous (namely that Baptism was not necessary for salvation), and therefore was justly opposed, but also how Father Feeney

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Papal Authority and Vatican IIIntroduction:The very grave state of affairs in the Catholic Church and in the world today is asserted by Catholics who accept the Deposit of the Faith in the manner it has been proposed by ecclesiastical tradition, unsullied, from the death of the last Apostle, St. John, until today, as being formally caused by the novelties introduced by the documents of the Second

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One controversy which has reappeared in recent years is that which concerns the thesis that the Earth is the center of the Universe.The Question: What is the center of the Universe? Is it the Earth?Is a question which, like all questions, needs to be clarified as the precise meaning of the terms, before it can be adequately answered.I will omit a discussion of what the term "the Earth" means,

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According to Mr. John Sharpe, editor of IHS publications, in his intervue with Stephen Heiner, Charles Stanton Devas, in the old Catholic Encyclopedia did "quite a nice job of hinting at exactly what Distributists are aiming for" in saying that,“the proper unfolding of human liberty and personality is historically bound up with, and cannot develop where each person is only a sharer in a

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One of the more well known sedevacansits (1) priests in the U.S.A., Fr. Anthony Cekada, recently rebutted the article by the Dominicans of Avrillé, which demonstrated the validity of the new rite of Episcopal Oridinations.Fr. Cekada's argument was based on faulty premises:I: Confusion of the Sacramental form and the sacramental formulaFr. Cekada writes:A. What is a Sacramental Form?In catechism

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Traditioninaction.org, one of the finest Catholic Websites for its historical and theological accuracy,* publishes this quote from St. Thomas, in regard to the recent advocacy of the Distributist position of Chesterton, among American Catholics. While I am not convinced that Chesterton advocated the kind of socialims St. Thomas condemns in the passage below, it is useful to consider what the

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We live in a generation unique among the generations of the sons of Adam: unique not only for its lack of religion, but for its contempt and hatred for it. Hence it is that not a few Catholics are wholly indifferent to the goodness, truth and beauty of the virtue of religion and its supreme and most efficacious act, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. For this reason, it behooves us, if we are to

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To keep The Scholasticism on focus, I will be posting my comments regarding the Social Reign of Jesus Christ and the current errors opposed to it on a new blog.http://www.utregnetchristusiesus.blogspot.com/where my first post is on the Orwellian Transmogrification of the Modern Liberal DemocracyFor those comming from Rorate Caeli, looking for my article on the error in Gaudium et Spes, n. 24,

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On this day, in the year of Our Lord, 1274, during the Second, Sacrosanct and Ecumenical Council of Lyon, after having reconciled the Greeks back to the Church, the glorious seraphic doctor, passed to his eternal reward.You can read more about St. Bonaventure athttp://www.franciscan-archive.org/bonaventuraYou can read an English translation of most of the first Book of St. Bonaventure's

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I wish to call to the attention of the readers of The Scholasticum Blog, a current, very pervasive, false spirit afoot among Bloggers, which is the fruit of the Masonic errors of freespeach and freethinking, which the very nature of the medium of blogging is easily given to.The error of free speech, holds that everyone has a right to publish or say or write whatever he desires to write or publish

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The Recent Vatican Document on Life Issues includes a statement not heard for more than 40 years from the Vatican, 40 years at least in a press release:The philosophical key to moving out of the culture of death, suggests the document, is "an integral understanding of what is human." It explains, "Without a 'meta-anthropology' which touches the being, the substance, the spirit, there can be no

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Here at the Scholasticum, we are celebrating today as the Solemnity of the Angelic Doctor. Today, is the 731st Annivesary of St. Thomas' transitus to Eternal Glory. For this purpose, here is a new English translation of the Saint's Summa contra Gentiles, Bk. 4, ch. 56: On the Necessity of the Sacraments.1. However, because, just as has been said, the Death of Christ is the quasi universal cause

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by Atila S. GuimarãesI have been asked to point out the differences among Liberal Catholics, Modernists, and Progressivists, since these terms have been used in the United States in a way that is inter-changeable and can lead to confusion. Liberalism, Modernism and Progressivism, in a certain sense, are like grandparent, father and son of the same family. Let me explain.The liberal accepts the

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by H.H. Pope Pius XII, Humani Generis, paragraphs 14 ff."In theology some want to reduce to a minimum the meaning of dogmas; and to free dogma itself from terminology long established in the Church and from philosophical concepts held by Catholic teachers, to bring about a return in the explanation of Catholic doctrine to the way of speaking used in Holy Scripture and by the Fathers of the Church

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Well, I'm back from the Lower Regions, I mean, "the lower regions of the internet": i.e. Wikipedia, which are not much different that the real lower regions, where demons wittle the hours of their impending ultimate damnation on the Day of Judgement, idling wailing and complaining and arguing among themselves against the pittiful, little truth that their darkened intellects can still

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Through the link above, you can access a blog, which I created today, where all of us can post some spiritual bouquet or share some prayer for, Pope Benedict XVI.The state of the Church being such as it is, there is, I believe, no Pope in history who has more need of the prayers of all of Christendom, than he does today.Let us pray for our Pope!

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I am happy to report that the objectionable sections have been removed from Wikipedia article on St. Anselm. And that there is an agreement not to add them back, unless serious scholarship shows any truth or foundation to them (which of course it won't, because he is a Saint).

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I encourage all Catholics to write the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Directors, to protest the sodomitic slurs against St. Anselm at Wikipedia. Below is the letter I sent today: you can copy and paste it to the link of this post (which is the email address to the Board), and send it on your own.Dear Board of the Directors of the Wikimedia foundation,I am writing to express my concern that

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DE LIBERTATE RELIGIOSATractatio QuaestionumPreviously considered were:ARTICLE I: On Religious Liberty considered in itselfQuestion 1: On the Form of Religious LibertyQuestion 2: On the Matter of Religious LibertyQuestion 3: On the Object of Religious LibertyARTICLE IIOn the Subject of Religious LibertyPreviously considered were:Question 1: On the religious liberty of God, and its threefold

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DE LIBERTATE RELIGIOSATractatio QuaestionumPreviously considered were:ARTICLE I: On Religious Liberty considered in itselfQuestion 1: On the Form of Religious LibertyQuestion 2: On the Matter of Religious LibertyQuestion 3: On the Object of Religious LibertyARTICLE IIOn the Subject of Religious LibertyPreviously considered was: Question 1: On the religious liberty of God, and its threefold

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DE LIBERTATE RELIGIOSATractatio QuaestionumPreviously considered were:ARTICLE I: On Religious Liberty considered in itselfQuestion 1: On the Form of Religious LibertyQuestion 2: On the Matter of Religious LibertyQuestion 3: On the Object of Religious LibertyARTICLE IIOn the Subject of Religious LibertyHaving considered religious liberty in itself, let us see what religious liberty is in rational

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DE LIBERTATE RELIGIOSATractatio QuaestionumARTICLE IOn Religious Liberty considered in itselfPreviously considered were:Question 1: On the Form of Religious LibertyQuestion 2: On the Matter of Religious LibertyQuestion 3On the Object of Religious LibertyThird, for a complete understanding of religious liberty, which is that species of liberty which regards religious matters; it must be asked,

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DE LIBERTATE RELIGIOSATractatio QuaestionumARTICLE IOn Religious Liberty considered in itselfPreviously considered was: Question 1: On the Form of Religious LibertyQuestion 2On the Matter of Religious LibertyReligious liberty is a species of liberty. Moreover, according to the Philosopher, every species is to its genus as form to matter: therefore religious liberty is to liberty as form to matter

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DE LIBERTATE RELIGIOSATractatio QuaestionumARTICLE IOn Religious Liberty considered in itselfQuestion 1On the Form of Religious LibertyTo know anything is to know its causes: among these the first is that from whence a thing comes to be, or its efficient cause. Now just as that which brings a thing into being is constitutive of the form in thereafter retains, so is every efficient cause the

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Having begun a discussion of H. H. Pope Benedict XVI's recent statements on Vatican II's teaching on religious liberty ( cf. Part I : Part II : Part III : Part IV ), after the rambling manner of Duns Scotus, let us now reconsider the matter more profoundly in the more succint manner of the Seraphic and Angelic Doctors, in the form of a Quaestio Disputata (a disputed question), that is in

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VATICAN II AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: PART IVSED CONTRANow let's take the part of the Pope, and as He is certainly due by His august office the respect due any objector in a Scholastic debate, let's consider the relative argument he advances in his pre-Christmas talk. The quoted sections are those of H. H. B16.1) "However, in the meantime, the modern age also had its development. It was becoming

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VATICAN II AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: PART IIIAdmittedly, H. H. Benedict XVI has changed his view on the continuity of Vatican II's teaching on "religious liberty". In his book, "The Theological Highlights of Vatican II" (quoted in part II of this essay), he said that this document taught in discontinuity with the past, and corrected old misinterpretations; brought the Church into a greater harmony

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VATICAN II AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: PART IIIn his book, "The Theological Highlights of Vatican II" (Paulist Press, 1966) the young theologian, Father Ratzinger discusses Vatican II's novel thesis on religious liberty on pp. 143-147.Let's take a look at some of his arguments in favor of this new thesis:1) "This was not a problem about truth and error but about the coexistence of people in whom truth

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The Scholasticum paused in July with a discussion of the duty to enjoy God alone, and use all other things in an order toward Him. From this truth, one can make application to all aspects of life, and in particular to the contemporary discussion of "religious liberty", topic recently addressed by the Roman Pontiff.VATICAN II AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: PART IH.H. Benedict XVI gave a talk before

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After about 5 months of inactivity, I've decided to revive the "The Scholasticum" Blog, now that they have implemented various spam defenses to the commenting, and allow moderated comments. That will keep the discussion serious, and among those who are sincerely interested in Scholastic discourse, rather than the anti-catholic rant you get at other pro-Catholic sites.As an aspiring disciple of

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From St. Thomas’, Super Sententiarum, bk. 1, d. 1 q. 3 a. 1.QUESTION 3Article 1“Whether one is to use all (things) other than God?”1. Then there is asked concerning usuables, whether one is to use all other (things) beside God. And it seems that (one is) not. For « to use is to assume something into the faculty of the will ». Moreover only that has been assumed in this manner which is subject [

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For the 731th Feast of St. Bonaventure of BagnoregioFrom St. Bonaventure's, "Commentaria", Bk. I, d. 1, a. 3, q. 1.With it shown, what it is to enjoy essentially [per essentiam], the question (now) concerns the enjoyable, and first, whether it is fitting that one enjoy God; second, whether one is to enjoy Him alone.QUESTION 1Whether one is to enjoy God?About the first, that one is to enjoy God,

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From St. Thomas's, Commentary on the Book of Sentences, Bk. I, d. 1, q. 2, a. 2.QUESTION 2Article 2Whether we enjoy God by one act of enjoyment [una fruitione]?1. About the second one proceeds thus. It seems that we do not enjoy God by one act of enjoyment [una fruitione]. For an act [actus] is distinguished according to (its) objects. But the objects of enjoyment are the Three distinguished by

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From St. Bonaventure's, "Commentaria", Bk. I, d. 1, a. 1, q. 3.QUESTION 3Whether one is to use only the created good?Third, having shown, whether one is to use every thing created and everything else (that is) from God, there is the question, whether one is to use only the created good. And it seems that (this is) so.1. « Every good either is an end, or for an end [ad finem] »; but one is to use

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From St. Thomas', Super Sent., Bk. I, d. 1, q. 2, a. 1QUESTION 2ForewordAbout the objects of the (afore)said acts, first there is asked concerning enjoyables; second concerning useables. As much as regards the first, two (things) are asked:1. Whether God alone is to be enjoyed;2. Whether (there is) only one and/or more enjoyment.ARTICLE 1Whether God alone is to be enjoyed?1. To the first one

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From St. Bonventure's, "Commentaria", Bk. I, d. 1, a. 1, q. 2.QUESTION 2Whether one is to use every created thing?Second, having seen what essentially "to use" is, (the second question) is asked concerning the usable, that is, whether one is to use every created thing. And that (this is) so, seems in this manner.1. In the sixteenth (chapter) of Proverbs: All things [universa] for His own sake

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from St. Thomas's Super Sent., Bk I, d. 1. q. 1, a. 2.ARTICLE IIWhether “to use” be an act of reason?1. About the second one proceeds thus. It seems that “to use” is an act of the reason. For to ordain one (thing) to another belongs to the power of the one conferring, to which manner belongs reason. But “to use” means an order to an end. Therefore it is an act of reason.2. Besides, as the

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from the Editor's deskHaving explained why it is that Master Peter opens his discussion of the first book with the distinction of use and enjoyment, let us now address the matter directly.First the question of what is it "to enjoy" presupposes the being who is to enjoy and the being to be enjoyed. Since the Book of Sentences concerns academic theology, which is a species of Theology in man, one

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from the Editor's deskThere are several important characteristics of Master Peter's treatment of Theology that must be noted, which distinguish it radically from much of so-called modern "theology".First, that for Master Peter, and his commentators, the academic discipline of theology is posterior to faith. It is posterior because a man must first have the habit of theology which arises through

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From St. Bonaventure's, "Commentaria", Bk. I, d. 1, a. 2, q. sole.ARTICLE IIWhat is it "to enjoy"?With (the question) of to use and the useable having been considered, consequently there is asked, concerning to enjoy and the enjoyable, first, what is it "to enjoy" essentially [per essentiam], that is, whether it is an act of the will, or whether (it is an act) of the other powers (of the soul) [

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from the Editor's desk« While considering the contents of the Old and New Law again and again by diligent chase [indagine], the prevenient grace of God has hinted to us, that a treatise on the Sacred Page is [versari] chiefly about things and/or signs. »With these words, the great Peter Lombard, Archbishop of Paris, begins his first Book of Sentences. It is admirable that in Master Peter's Book

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From St. Thomas Aquinas', "Commentaria", Book I, d. 1, a. 1Having finishing the Foreword, this is the beginning of the present work in which Master (Peter) intends to hand over [tradere] to us the doctrine of divine (things) as much as regards the inquisition into truth [inquisitionem veritatis] and the destruction of error: whence he also proceeds in an argumentative manner in the whole work:

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From St. Bonaventure's, Commentaria, Bk. I, d. 1, a. 1.St. Bonaventure first outlines Master Peter's First Distinction, and then proceeds to the discussion at hand. (Editor)DIVISION OF THE TEXTIn this part of his, (Master Peter Lombard) begins the text [tractatus] of the Book, which is divided into four partial books. The first part has two parts. In the first part Master (Peter) hunts the matter

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Book of Sentences, Bk. I, Distinction 1Chapter I: Every doctrine concerns things and/or signs.While considering the contents of the Old and New Law again and again by diligent chase [indagine], the prevenient grace of God has hinted to us, that a treatise on the Sacred Page is [versari] chiefly about things and/or signs. For as Augustine, the egregious Doctor, says in the book on Christian

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From St. Bonaventure's, Commentaria, Proem., Q. 3.Whether this book or theology is for the sake of contemplation, or that we become good, or whether it is a speculative or practical science?Thirdly there is asked concerning the final cause. And since it has been said, that this book is for revealing things hidden away, it is asked, whether this work is for the sake of contemplation, and/or that

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from the editor's deskTheology is knowledge of God. Theology in God is perfect and unlimited, since God knows Himself with the same infinite power and perfection as His own Being; in the good Angels it is perfect and limited, since they see God as He is, but according to the limitations of the angelic mind; in man by Faith it is imperfect and limited, inasmuch as it is mediated by Revelation and

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From the editor's deskFirst, THIS IS NOT A BLOG. That is, "The Scholasticum", according to its above stated purpose, is not intended to be a BLOG, but rather an online orderly discussion of Scholastic Theology. (Yes, from a format point of view, its is a blog: since this is a very easy and free method for posting and hosting such a discusstion, in a more formal and detailed manner than a

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From St. Thomas's, Summa Theologiae, I, Q. 1, a. 8. Whether sacred doctrine is a matter for argumentation?Objection 1: It seems this doctrine is not a matter of argument. For Ambrose says (De Fide 1): "Put arguments aside where faith is sought." But in this doctrine, faith especially is sought: "But these things are written that you may believe" (Jn. 20:31). Therefore sacred doctrine is not a

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From St. Bonaventure's "Commentaria", Proem. Q. 2What is the formal cause or manner of proceeding in these Books of Sentences?Secondly there is asked concerning the formal cause or manner of acting. And it has been said, that it is thoroughly scrutatory and inquisitive of secrets.ON THE CONTRARY: 1. In the fortieth chapter of Isaiah: God causes the scrutinizers of secrets (to be) as if they were

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From the editor's deskTheology being the science of God, has it own propter criteria of the truth. However, inasmuch as everything known is known according to the powers of knowing of the knower, it follows that the criteria of truth in Theology are for some also mediated.The Eternal Word is the Theology of God. And Christ is the Theology of Creation. Theology in men, as a habit, is the theology

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From the Editor's DeskA commentary on St. Bonaventure's discussion of "What is the matter or subject of theology?" can be omitted, since the Quaracchi Editors have done such an excellent job in the Scholium.But what must not be omitted is a consideration of the ramifications of how theology is defined.As St. Thomas says, "A small error in the beginning leads to a great error at the end." And thus

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From St. Bonaventure's "Commentaria", Bk. I, Proem., Q. 1.What is the matter or subject of Theology?And that it seems that God is the subject:1. For in a science, that is the subject, concerning which and concerning whose properties the whole science is; but that whole Book (of Sentences of Master Peter) concerns God and His works, in the Creation and the Reparation; therefore etc..2. Likewise,

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A Commentary on St. Thomas', Summa Theologiae, Part I, Q. 1, a. 2.Now to a commenary on St. Thomas' argument on the Nature of Theology, that it is a science.First, it must be noted that the Angelic doctor has altered his terms, and no longer speaks of "theology", but of "sacred doctrine", by which he means "the human study of revelation", or "theology as it is in men", which is acquired theology:

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From St. Thomas Aquinas', Summa Theologiae, Part I, Q. 1, a. 2Objection 1: It seems that sacred doctrine is not a science. For every science proceeds from self-evident principles. But sacred doctrine proceeds from articles of faith which are not self-evident, since their truth is not admitted by all: "For all men have not faith" (2 Thess. 3:2). Therefore sacred doctrine is not a science.Objection

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From the Editor's DeskHaving commented on the arguments of St. Thomas and Bl. Scotus regarding the Necessity of Theology, let us consider the question in itself.First, it must be noted that this question turns on the signification of its terms: ‘theology’ and ‘necessity’.‘Necessity’ is taken from the Latin verb ‘necesse’ which can literally be rendered as ‘and not be’, and hence as signifying ‘

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A Commentary on Bl. Scotus', Ordinatio, Prologue, Part 1, Q. 1.From the Editor's DeskNow let us proceed to Bl. Scotus' argument. First, it should be noted that Scotus does not ask the question, "Whether Theology is necessary?" nor "Whether Theology is required?", but rather "Whether for man in his present state it be necessary that any supernatural doctrine inspire him, to which he could not

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A Commentary on St. Thomas Aquinas', "Summa Theologiae", Part I, Q. 1, A. 1From the Editor's DeskHaving discussed a number of preliminary topics, let us waste no more time on minor issues, and return to the matter at hand: Scholastic Theology. As I disussed in the article, "An Introduction to Scholastic Theology", the historical motive of Scholastic Theology was the "defense of the faith", and as

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From "AETERNI PATRIS", on the Restoration of Christian Philosophy14. Later on, the doctors of the middle ages, who are called Scholastics, addressed themselves to a great work-that of diligently collecting, and sifting, and storing up, as it were, in one place, for the use and convenience of posterity the rich and fertile harvests of Christian learning scattered abroad in the voluminous works of

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From the Chapter "Contradiçoes so Libreo "Infalivel" de Hans Kung" by Joseph Ratzinger, which appeared in the book, O Problema da Infallibilidad (Sao Paolo, Edicioes Loyola, 1974, on p. 110): this is the Official Portuguese translation of Zum Problem Unfehlbarkeit, (Karl Rahner editor, 1971), in which Ratzinger's chapter appeared.Joseph Ratzinger wrote there:"I want to emphasize again that I

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The Historical Origin of Scholastic TheologySuggested Reading:A History of Dogmatic Theology, c/o Catholic Encyclopedia (New Advent)St. Anselm of Bec, c/o Catholic Encyclopedia (New Advent)Peter Lombard, c/o Catholic Encyclopedia (New Advent)A History of Western Monasticism, c/o Catholic Encyclopedia (New Advent)CommentariumAlthough a history of theology is outside the scope of Scholastic

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From D. E. Romanae's, "The Neo-modernist Rupture at the Council and in the New Rites"Pope St. Pius X, in his many writings, defined modernism as a compendium of heresies which fundamentally viewed the Catholic Church from without, taking for itself, as it did, a different notion of "faith" as a religious sense, and hence understood and practiced the Catholic Faith as a fulfillment of interior

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I. The Place of Scholastic Theology in the Mind of the Churchfrom the Editor's deskPraised be Jesus Christ and His Immaculate Mother!First, let me say hello to the more than 1000 visitors to The Scholasticum in the last two days, and to give public thanks to Mr. Miller, the editor of The Seattle Catholic, an independent on-line catholic journal — the finest in the English speaking world, in my

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Father Brian W. Harrison is one of the few Catholic theologians today who has the willingness to cross the lines of polictical correctness. His article (cited below: Catholic Biblical Studies: the Golden Legend) explains how the modernists suceeded gaining control of biblical studies faculties in all the catholic faculties of the world in the 60's: his thesis -- the coup carefully orchestrated

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by Kathleen Willett Redle, M.F.A.or "Why it is necessary to restore the Scholastic Method in Education"Just what has happened to the Catholic Education system and why are we getting such bad catechesis? Why is there so much bad theology and liberalism rampant at Catholic Schools and Colleges? Before I begin to present reasons, I will provide an illustration from personal experience. I want to “

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From: Catholic Biblical Studies: The Golden Legend, by Father Brian W. Harrison, O.S.There is an old saying to the effect that history is written by the victors. The idea is that after a war has been fought, those, who, by emerging as the winners, succeed in controlling the present, can, in a certain sense, control the past as well. They can ensure that the dominant communications media will

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From Bl. John Duns Scotus', "Ordinatio", Prologue, Part 1, Question Sole: second halfII. Solution of the QuestionTo the question, therefore, I respond, first by distinguishing in what manner anything be said (to be) supernatural.a For a receptive power is compared to the act which it receives, and/or to the agent from which it receives. In the first manner it is a natural power, either violent,

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From Bl. John Duns Scotus', "Ordinatio", Prologue, Part 1, Question Sole: first halfQ. 1 It is askeda whether for man for his (present) state it be necessary that any special doctrine supernaturally inspire (him), to which he could not attain by the natural light of the intellect.And that (it is) not (so), I argue thus:Every power [potentia] having anything common for its first object, can

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From St. Thomas Aquinas', "Summa Theologiae", Part I, Q. 1, A. 1Objection 1: It seems that, besides philosophical science, we have no need of any further knowledge. For man should not seek to know what is above reason: "Seek not the things that are too high for thee" (Ecclus. 3:22). But whatever is not above reason is fully treated of in philosophical science. Therefore any other knowledge

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Oh, Immaculate and Ever-Virgin Mary, Mother of God and Our Mother: I kneel before Thee, the Theotokos! I bow before Thee, the Masterpiece of the Holy Ghost! I turn to Thee in humble supplication, Thou who, but a creature, are the Daughter and Princess of the Eternal Father!Thou, O Virgin Queen, art the Mother of all Theology! Thou, O Theotokos, are the Fount of Light! Few there are in the history

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From St. Eucherius's "Contempt for the World"I shall therefore speak unto you, not the wisdom of this world, but that secret and hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory. I shall speak with much care and affection towards you, and with very little respect and animadversion of myself; for I have in this attempt considered more what I wish to see practised in you, than what

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From Dionysius the Areopagite's, "MYSTICAL THEOLOGY", Ch. 1.Supernal Triad, Deity above all essence, knowledge and goodness; Guide of Christians to Divine Wisdom; direct our path to the ultimate summit of your mystical knowledge, most incomprehensible, most luminous and most exalted, where the pure, absolute and immutable mysteries of theology are veiled in the dazzling obscurity of the secret

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From Father Walter Farrel, O.P., "A Companion to the Summa", Vol. I, Ia Pars, q. 1.The Necessity of WisdomAll this would be true if man's life were to be fulfilled by a goal within the grasp of his natural powers. When we face the fact that the only goal of man is above all nature, the eternal vision of God, we see something of the desperate necessity for a divine revelation that will give him

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From, St. Bonaventure's Homily at the Univ. of Paris: "Christ, the One Master of All"One is your Master, the Christ, Matthew, chapter 23. In this verse it is declared, that there is a fontal principle of cognitive illumination, namely the Christ, who since He is the splendor of the Father’s glory and the figure of His Substance, bearing all things by the word of His virtue, just as is said to the

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Master Peter Lombard's Prologue to the Four Books of SentencesDesiring with the poor woman to place something from our penury and meagerness into the guardhouse of the Lord's treasury, and to scale its steep steps, we have presumed to do a work beyond our strength, placing our trust in its consummation and recompense in the Samaritan's labors, who, having offered two denarii to care for the

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St. Thomas Aquinas' Introduction to the Summa Contra GentilesMy mouth shall discuss truth, and my lips shall detest the ungodly (Prov. vii,7).According to established popular usage, which the Philosopher considers should be our guide in the naming of things, they are called 'wise' who put things in their right order and control them well. Now, in all things that are to be controlled and put in

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From the Papal Bull, "Triumphantis Hierusalem", proclaiming St. Bonaventure a Doctor of the ChurchFinally the utility of the universal Church moves Us, . . . especially when the ambushes and the diabolical machinations of heretics, by which they oppose most vehemently in this sad age that sacred theology, which is called Scholastic, admonish Us greatly, that We should retain, explain, and

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Veni, Creator Spiritus,Mentes tuorum visita,Imple superna gratia,Quae tu creasti, pectora.Qui diceris Paraclitus,Altissimi donum Dei,Fons vivus, ignis, caritasEt spiritalis unctio.Tu septiformis munere,Digitus Paternae dexterae,Tu rite promissum Patris,Sermone ditans guttura.Accende lumen sensibus,Infunde amorem cordibus,Infirma nostri corporisVirtute firmans perpeti.Hostem repellas longius,

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