Yesterday I released a video talking about the idea that God is simple. While it seems to me that far too many people either don’t appreciate or hold to this doctrine today, it is nevertheless the classical understanding of God in the Christian tradition. This has always been the Catholic position on the nature of
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The classical understanding of God is that He is SIMPLE. That is, the Divine Nature does not consist of “parts” of any kind whatsoever. The implications that follow from the doctrine of Divine Simplicity are huge. From the notion that God is simple we can know that God is one, immutable, eternal, and immaterial.. But
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One of the problems with people like Richard Dawkins and the other “new atheists” is that they lump all Christians into one category – the category of the gullible/”blind faith”/anti-intellectual “fundamentalist” and they think that by refuting such easy targets they have therefore debunked all of Christianity. But of course, this commits the straw man
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A lot of people think that the book of Genesis conflicts with modern science. They assume that the creation account there along with the story of Adam cannot be reconciled with what we learn in cosmology or biology. But this is simply not true. Now there are in fact a number of things we do
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This is an important message for Catholic parents regarding raising kids in our secular culture. Taken from a talk delivered to the Archdiocese of Newark’s Men’s Conference 2017. Get The Introduction To The Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas program here. This course covers the following topics (and more): Why Philosophy is Important Why Aquinas’ Philosophy
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Some people think believing in Christianity is unreasonable. Maybe they have never heard any good reasons in favor of it, or maybe they have. Nevertheless, what many of these people don’t realize is that the rejection of Christianity comes with its own set of absurdities. In this episode of Spiritual Combat, I’ll talk about why the evidence shows
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Citing Augustine, St. Alphonsus Liguori says “God has not promised you tomorrow; perhaps He will give it to you and perhaps He will deny it to you as He has denied it to so many.” In the middle ages there was an entire genre of literature on the theme of “dying well”. St Robert Bellarmine’s
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On Tuesday Feb 7th 2017, the Catholic Church beatified Takayama Ukon, a Japanese Christian samurai and feudal lord who died in exile about 400 years ago after refusing to renounce his faith. According to Wikipedia, Ukon was expelled from Japan after the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, the ruler of the time, prohibited the Christian faith.
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I ran across this beautiful infographic today on the life of St. Thomas Aquinas. Click here to download a larger copy! Who else wants to learn philosophy? Get the Introduction To The Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas program available here.
Do you know the difference between a heretic, materialist, infidel, apostate, and an atheist? This nice chart will help you understand the difference.
