Category Archives: Aquinas

“While we do not see how there can be Father, Son and Spirit who are all one God, we can show that it is not nonsense”

Posted on 31 March 2024 by Fr Aidan Kimel

That God is one and three is, of course, for Aquinas a profound mystery which we could not hope to know apart from divine revelation. But we can only begin to understand what he has to say about it if … Continue reading →

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Universal Divine Goodness: Contemporary Roman Catholic Theology And ‘Universalism’ (Part 2)

Posted on 28 January 2024 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Barry A. David, Ph.D. Universal versus Limited Divine Goodness in Eschatology Viewed in one way, Roman Catholic thought concerning eschatology’s final cause was not always torn between outcomes of minority and universal beatitude. As St. Paul’s account of ‘Biblical … Continue reading →

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Toward Distinguishing the Relationship Between Contemporary Roman Catholic Theology And ‘Universalism’

Posted on 23 January 2024 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Barry A. David, Ph.D. “The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available … Continue reading →

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God and Freedom by Brian Davies

Posted on 17 November 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel

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Predestination, Grace, and the Fear of Determinism

Posted on 9 November 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Absolute predestination! This is the topic I have been leading up to from the beginning of this series. It has just taken me longer to reach it than I anticipated. But here we are—finally. I deem predestination to be the … Continue reading →

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The Extrinsic Model of Universal Divine Causality: Divine Providence and Grace

Posted on 6 November 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel

I hope you are now persuaded that the dual sources account of universal divine causality, when articulated within the extrinsic model, represents a plausible construal of the relationship between divine and human agency. And as we have seen, it appears … Continue reading →

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St Thomas Aquinas: Divine Providence, Free Will, and Determinism

Posted on 1 November 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel

How likely is it that philosophers who espouse libertarian free will will find the Thomist construal of double agency convincing, despite the brilliance of my previous articles?1 Probably as likely as hitting four of a kind on the river. In … Continue reading →

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Divine Universal Causality, Determinism, and the Mystery of Double Agency

Posted on 30 October 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel

In this article and the next three, I want to explore the question “Is St Thomas Aquinas’s doc­trine of absolute predestination a form of causal determinism?” I considered including this four-parter in my series on Roberto De La Noval’s “Pelagius … Continue reading →

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