If you actually read Garigou-Lagrange, he doesn't seem to fit in to the caricature people like to put him in. A fundamental aspect of Thomism is that *everything* is in a sense grace, because God has to preserve everything in existence at every moment. Coupled with His Providence, and the multiple teleological arguments... The problem is merely in the style; Thomist admittedly can seem dry, pedantic in distinctions and their terminology obscure. But once you understand it, the Truth is quite beautiful.
St Thomas is declared as the Common Doctor and the foundation for Catholic theology for a good reason. Our Lord said to St Thomas "Thou hast written well of me" for a very good reason I think. The aggiornamento was an attempt many times to shove out the emphasis given by St Thomas and the Thomistic thinkers, which was preferred and defended by the magisterium itself!
I think that is a slight mistake, the neo-platonic tradition and the Greek Apophatic tradition of theology is a much older tradition and is of equal dignity to St Thomas probably was much more an eclectic philosopher and his interpreter seem to always get him wrong. Being part of a theological faction isn't required for salvation what is believing in the four creeds of the Catholic entirely and truly.
In the Thurston and Attwater revision of Alban Butler’s Lives of the Saints, the episode is described this way: On the feast of St. Nicholas [in 1273, Aquinas] was celebrating Mass when he received a revelation that so affected him that he wrote and dictated no more, leaving his great work the Summa Theologiae unfinished. To Brother Reginald’s (his secretary and friend) expostulations he replied, “The end of my labors has come. All that I have written appears to be as so much straw after the things that have been revealed to me.” When later asked by Reginald to return to writing, Aquinas said, “I can write no more. I have seen things that make my writings like straw.” (www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/stt03002.htm)
@@theologicarex1137 St. Augustine education is Plato's; St. Thomas' is Aristotle's. I do not think there is comparison of the two on equality of dignity.
If neo-scholastics have a glaring Achilles heel it’s their insistence on applying their habitual either/or impulse onto an otherwise both/and solution. Platonic and Aristotelean methodology and lenses are both necessary if we are to aim for bigger picture on anything spiritual or theological.
If you actually read Garigou-Lagrange, he doesn't seem to fit in to the caricature people like to put him in.
A fundamental aspect of Thomism is that *everything* is in a sense grace, because God has to preserve everything in existence at every moment. Coupled with His Providence, and the multiple teleological arguments...
The problem is merely in the style; Thomist admittedly can seem dry, pedantic in distinctions and their terminology obscure. But once you understand it, the Truth is quite beautiful.
St Thomas is declared as the Common Doctor and the foundation for Catholic theology for a good reason. Our Lord said to St Thomas "Thou hast written well of me" for a very good reason I think. The aggiornamento was an attempt many times to shove out the emphasis given by St Thomas and the Thomistic thinkers, which was preferred and defended by the magisterium itself!
I think that is a slight mistake, the neo-platonic tradition and the Greek Apophatic tradition of theology is a much older tradition and is of equal dignity to St Thomas probably was much more an eclectic philosopher and his interpreter seem to always get him wrong. Being part of a theological faction isn't required for salvation what is believing in the four creeds of the Catholic entirely and truly.
In the Thurston and Attwater revision of Alban Butler’s Lives of the Saints, the episode is described this way:
On the feast of St. Nicholas [in 1273, Aquinas] was celebrating Mass when he received a revelation that so affected him that he wrote and dictated no more, leaving his great work the Summa Theologiae unfinished. To Brother Reginald’s (his secretary and friend) expostulations he replied, “The end of my labors has come. All that I have written appears to be as so much straw after the things that have been revealed to me.” When later asked by Reginald to return to writing, Aquinas said, “I can write no more. I have seen things that make my writings like straw.” (www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/stt03002.htm)
@@theologicarex1137 St. Augustine education is Plato's; St. Thomas' is Aristotle's. I do not think there is comparison of the two on equality of dignity.
If neo-scholastics have a glaring Achilles heel it’s their insistence on applying their habitual either/or impulse onto an otherwise both/and solution. Platonic and Aristotelean methodology and lenses are both necessary if we are to aim for bigger picture on anything spiritual or theological.
De Lubac was very good on the Eucharist....My old Jesuit teacher was a fan!