Catherine Pickstock has demonstrated that the aporia of learning, the proverbial gap between neumena and phenomena, is solved by Aquinas in the personal desire created by the tension between presence and absence of Christ in the Eucharist. If there is no anticipation of presence then desire would be turned to apathy. If there is no [...]
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Eucharistic Presence: Are Calvinists Skeptics? (III)
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Rule of Sacred Doctrine
"Those ... who use philosophy in sacred doctrine can err in two ways. In one way by making use of teachings that are contrary to the faith, which consequently do not belong to philosophy but are a corruption and abuse of it [...] In another way by including the contents of faith within the bounds of philosophy, as would happen should somebody decide to believe nothing but what could be established by philosophy. On the contrary, philosophy should be brought within the bounds of faith, as the Apostle says in 2 Corinthians 10:5: 'We ... take every thought captive to obey Christ.'" ~ Thomas Aquinas, Expositio super librum Boethii de Trinitate, Q. 2, a. 3.-
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