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there absolutely is an intuition to history. The world is only temporarily in such a deprived state

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And you as well!

He's very insightful!

Or even just an article!

I have read 1400 pages of the Summa. I read some of it back in the late sixties but at the time my base in philosophy was very weak.

@@nancyjanzen5676 That's wonderful!

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@@ThomisticInstitute Listened to the 2nd podcast this morning, Fr Legge 46 mins on Faith & reason. So delighted to have found a spiritual home. I cannot thank you enough for making all these riches available free to lay people.

@@kathiesalter8936 Your comments are very encouraging. Thanks so much!

@@ThomisticInstitute many thanks! I just heard the next podcast, on trustful simple assent of faith backed up by evidences, as distinct from proven "vehement opinion" I had thought it was all about, and have engaged with (endlessly) on FB - and been dissuaded from by my priest. For a voluminous writer, St Thomas makes it so simple!! I really wish he had been taught in my RCIA 9 years ago. Thank you so much, again.

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An excellent question! Here's something that St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross once wrote about St. Thomas: “What has been called St. Thomas’s “system” took shape in this work of assembling, sifting, ordering. The body of knowledge of his time became organized in his mind. He wrote no “philosophical system,” nor has the system behind his works been written so far. Yet anyone who studies his works will find clear, definite answers, perhaps to more questions than he himself could ask. And what is more, the organon that the Master bore within himself and that enable him to settle a host of issues with a firm, serene, respondeo dicendum, leaves its mark on his “disciple” and gives him the ability to answer questions in Thomas’s spirit that Thomas never asked and possibly at the time could not have been asked at all. This may well also be the reason why folks today are going back to his writings. Ours is a time that is no longer content with methodical deliberations. People have nothing to hold on to and are looking for purchase. They want a truth to cling to, a meaning for their lives; they want a “philosophy for life.” And this they find in Thomas. Of course there is a world of difference between Thomas’s philosophy and what passes for “philosophy for life” today. In his philosophy we will look in vain for flights of emotion; all we will find is truth, soberly grasped in abstract concepts. On the surface much of it looks like theoretical “hair-splitting” that we cannot “do” anything with. And even after serious study it is not easy to put our finger on practical returns. But a person who has lived for some time with the mind of St. Thomas-lucid, keen, calm, cautious-and dwelt in his world, will come to feel more and more that he is making right choices with ease and confidence on difficult theoretical issues or in practical situations where before he would have been helpless. And if later he thinks back-even surprising himself-on how he managed it, he will realize that a bit of St. Thomas’s “hairsplitting” laid the groundwork. At the time that Thomas was working on this or that problem, he naturally had no idea what it could some day be “good for,” nor was he concerned about it. He was but following out the law of truth; truth bears fruit of itself.” I would say that a good place to begin in finding the spark is learning about the saint himself. A delightful book about St. Thomas, that I once read and loved, is called The Quiet Light. I recommend it to you heartily!

You're correct in thinking so. St. Thomas says that it is not proper to call the souls of deceased person human beings since they lack what is proper to the intgrety of human nature. At the resurrection of the body, they will be reconstituted as human persons, and the delight of the beatific vision which the just presently experience will overflow into their bodies, giving them a yet greater capacity for perfect joy. So, strictly speaking, the soul of St. Thomas is in heaven. But, inasmuch as we name the whole by the part (as in synedoche), it makes sense to say that St. Thomas is in heaven.

@@ThomisticInstitute Beautifully stated. Thanks for the response!

@@emmanuelsimon8607 Glad to hear! Our pleasure.

I know where you're coming from. He is terrific. Being 74 years old, I heartily recommend making sure to concentrates on reading the bible through from Genesis to Revelation prayerfully at least once every five years seeking the guidance of the Holy Spirit daily. That's a real joy and why Thomas made sure everything he wrote agreed with scripture.

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