Word: aquinases
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Farly in the 12th Century St. Bernard roundly rebuked the Church of Lyons for attempting to celebrate the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin. St. Thomas Aquinas rejected the doctrine, as did also St. Bonaventura. However, John Duns Scotus, a celebrated Franciscan who died in 1308, argued in favor of...
It is announced that Sir Richard Haget, well known experimenter, has devised an artificial throat capable of uttering with close perfection the tones of human speech and song. In this is recalled the age-old attempts to create a human-like mechanism that could talk like a man. Albertus Magnus...
Aquinas did for the 13th century what Christian leaders attempt today?he unified Christianity and philosophy. But since his death philosophy has produced natural philosophy, natural philosophy has become science.
Pope Leo XIII, link between the 19th and 20th centuries, laid down the dogmatic system of Aquinas as the " norm" of Roman Catholic teaching. Pius X, in 1907, blasted all " modernism" by an encyclical (Pascendi Dominici) which emphasized the central Catholic idea of Authority. Abbe Loisy in France, Father Tyrrell...
Men seem to believe that a modern Aquinas will join Christian discovery and scientific discovery into a unity of aim which will command the allegiance of both head and heart. Or perhaps a John Wesley (who founded Methodism in the days of sophisticated Fox, Pitt, Catherine II, and the French...