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Augustine/Aquinas Project

Published on Mar 17, 2016

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AUGUSTINE'S MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS

  • Theory of time:the confessions
  • Faith seeking understanding -crede,ut intelligas:order you may understand
  • Ontological argument- writings influenced st.anselm's formulation
  • Refutation of skepticism -cogito ergo som("I think,therefore I am )
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MAJOR QUESTIONS/ISSUES

  • How could expectations not drive him to despair ?
  • Asked himself questions ?
  • Does not knowledge have to come first?
  • Do we pray first in order to gain knowledge ?
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QUESTIONS CONTINUE

  • How does praise come about ?
  • Is it man's doing?
  • What does it mean "to call on God"
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DE GENESI

  • Order direct lessons to young-earth creationists
  • Science is one of the interpretation of De GENESI
  • It solves the enumeration in the first chapter of Genesis
  • Shows the answers more visible and clearly
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CITY OF GOD

  • The city of God is good
  • It gives you eternal happiness
  • The city of man is bad
  • The flesh is a major topic and it could be good or bad
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AQUINAS MAJOR CONTRIBUTION

  • On being and essences
  • De anima
  • Questions on truth
  • Questions on spiritual creatures
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QUESTIONS FOR AQUINAS

  • What is God?
  • The perfection of God?
  • The simplicity of God?
  • Goodness in general
  • Goodness of god
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QOUTE OF GRACE AND NATURE

  • "Love takes up where knowledge leaves off"
  • "Things that we love tell us what we are"
  • "Wonder is the desire for knowledge "
  • "By nature all men are equal in liberty,nut not in other endowment "
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WATER INTO WINE

  • People are the water
  • God is the wine
  • They both come together threw faith
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PROOF OF GOD

  • Our senses prove that see things are in motion
  • Things move when potential things become actual
  • Therefore nothing itself can move itself
  • Nothing exists prior to itself
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FAITH AND REASON

  • Sources of jurisdiction for religious beliefs
  • Faith does never produces contradictory or competing claims
  • Faith can become positively irrational
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OPINIONS

  • Thomas appeals to four causes in his works
  • God is the ultimate cause, didn't create indirectly
  • There is one triune creator,and there are creatures
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