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  1. Charles Johnson

    Simplicity of God in the Church Fathers

    I have compiled quotes relating to divine simplicity from the first 1000 years of the Church, in part to show that the version of simplicity taught by Aquinas is not a novel, roman catholic doctrine, or even "Thomist," as it were, but something universally held to among the fathers (not to...
  2. Charles Johnson

    Gisbertus Voetius on Scholastic Theology

    Hi friends, I have translated a section of Voetius dealing with scholastic theology for the first time. I feel that the scholastic/Aquinas retrieval movement has not been entirely honest about the reception of medieval scholasticism in the Reformed Church, especially when they make statements...
  3. TryingToLearn

    Aquinas vs the Reformers on the Donum Superadditum

    Richard Muller in his Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms in defining the donum superadditum states that, Aquinas maintained that the donum superadditum was part of the original constitution of man and that its loss was the loss of the original capacity for righteousness. Since the...
  4. Haeralis

    How Aristotle's "Ethics" Helped to Cause the Reformation

    This helpful academic journal article from Dr. Ronald N. Frost delineates the role played by Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics in fostering the medieval scholasticism that the Protestant Reformers sought to replace with a purer Augustinian theology. Crucial topics explored within Aristotle’s...
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