Ite ad Thomam: "Go to Thomas!"

 The Eucharist as a Specification of the 'Sacraments of the Natural Law' in AquinasPaper presented at Ave Maria UniversityAquinas Conference, Feb. 2, 2024 Francisco J. Romero CarrasquilloSt....

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Quaeritur:  What is the difference between "will" and "free will"?   Looking at the Latin text in the Summa I notice that where Thomas is translated as “free will” the original...

http://iteadthomam.blogspot.com/2020/06/are-will-and-free-will-synonymous-in-st.html

If you are a Thomistic philosopher without formal theological training, odds are you have not had a chance to study St. Thomas' IIIa Pars at any depth.  At best, as part of our Thomistic phi...

http://iteadthomam.blogspot.com/2018/04/st-thomas-christology-synthesis-of-de.html

In the Tertia Pars of the Summa Theologiae, St. Thomas seems to be particularly concerned about the Nestorian-like error of some of his contemporaries and recent predecessors---among them Peter L...

http://iteadthomam.blogspot.com/2018/04/st-thomas-on-peter-lombards-error-of.html

One common problem among experienced by beginners in theology, especially those who have a more analytical mind but who have no previous theological training, is that they do not understand or kn...

http://iteadthomam.blogspot.com/2018/04/an-introduction-to-analogy-in-st-thomas.html

Quaeritur: The dogma that there is no salvation without baptism bothers me.  Can't God work outside our little theological box?  It seems miopic and close minded to think that God is bo...

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Quaeritur: In Summa theologiae Ia, q.27, Aquinas explains in great detail what is going on inside the Trinity. The two internal processions: the Father generates the Son. The Father and the Son s...

http://iteadthomam.blogspot.com/2018/04/quaeritur-how-are-trinitarian.html

"Just as it was said of old to the Egyptians in time of famine: 'Go to Joseph' (ite ad Joseph), so that they should receive a supply of corn to nourish their bodies, so to those who are now in quest of truth We now say: 'Go to Thomas' (ite ad Thomam) that they may ask from him the food of solid doctrine of which he has abundance to nourish their souls unto eternal life" (Pope Pius XI, Studiorum ducem)

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The Dead Christ, by Andrea Mantegna c.1480 Holy Saturday is that day of the year that I cannot help but think of the deep theological irony involved in Nietzsche's infamos phrase.  "God is d...

http://iteadthomam.blogspot.com/2018/03/god-is-dead.html

Quaeritur: I am reading St. Thomas' treatise on the Trinity (Summa theologiae, Ia Pars, qq. 27-43).  I am trying to understand more about the Trinity, how the Persons relate to one another, ...

http://iteadthomam.blogspot.com/2018/03/quaeritur-why-lack-of-feminine-language.html

Quaeritur: In St. Thomas' Christology, I have found some logical terminology that I do not understand, especially the terms "to predicate" and "reduplication."  Would you please define ...

http://iteadthomam.blogspot.com/2018/03/quaeritur-logical-vocabulary-in-st.html

Quaeritur: I have a question regarding the union of the Divine and human natures in the one Person of Christ. Is the union of the two natures in the one Person of Christ merely accidental or...

http://iteadthomam.blogspot.com/2018/02/quaeritur-is-hypostatic-union.html

For your convenience, here are links to download all twelve of Joseph Pohle's Dogmatic Theology (1911–1920, edited by Arthur Preuss):  God: His Knowability, Essence, and Attributes The Div...

http://iteadthomam.blogspot.com/2017/09/pohle-preuss-dogmatic-theology-12-vols.html

It is a rather common position among Thomistic scholars to consider logic as a science.  And St. Thomas in fact often calls it scientia rationalis in several texts.  However, I wou...

http://iteadthomam.blogspot.com/2017/05/st-thomas-logic-is-not-science.html

From Garrigou-Lagrange, The Mother of the Saviour and Our Interior Life, preface: This book is intended to be an exposition of the principal theses of Mariology in their bearing on our inter...

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The view that St. Thomas should be our model for our understanding of the relationship between faith and reason is a commonplace in Thomistic studies and in Catholic philosophy and theology in ge...

http://iteadthomam.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-uses-of-reason-in-theology.html

Below are some links for you to download free ITOPL files of tremendously valuable manuals of dogmatic theology published in the 1940s and 50s.  These works (among others) represen...

http://iteadthomam.blogspot.com/2017/03/free-pdfs-of-doronzo-and-jesuit-bac.html

John of St. Thomas, O.P., The Gifts of the Holy Spirit, with an introduction by Cajetan Cuddy, O.P. (Tacoma, WA: Cluny Media, 2016), xiv + 403pp. To my joy and amazement, Cluny Med...

http://iteadthomam.blogspot.com/2017/03/new-book-john-of-st-thomas-gifts-of.html

Downloadable PDFs (External Links) As of late, I have been searching the internet for downloadable PDFs of works relevant to Thomism and to pretty much anything else related to traditional Cathol...

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Adapted from Francisco J. Romero Carrasquillo, "Aquinas’ Reception of John of Damascus’ Philosophy of Religious Worship," (forthcoming).   You can download the original paper (draft) fro...

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As is well known, Ecclesiastical Latin has its own pronunciation--or family of pronunciations, if we include regional variants, the prevailing one being the italianate pronunciation.  T...

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St. Thomas famously says that we cannot naturally know what God is directly as He is in Himself, but only what He is not, and only through His effects, etc.  This is a commonplace in discuss...

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Quaeritur: I'm reading the first few questions of the IIIa Pars, and it seems many of these questions are on hypothetical scenarios having to do with whether God could have assumed...

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