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various things as they approach in diverse ways toward something that is the greatest, just as in the case of hotter (more hot) wh...

This paper examines the contingency theory and causality argument offered by Saint Thomas Aquinas in his cosmological theories on ...

appetite for sex...amounts to being enslaved" and is essentially a sin (Armstrong, 1998). Armstrong (1998) indicates that there ...

In eight pages this research paper contrasts and compares these Christian theologians in terms of their similarities and differenc...

of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...

doubt, people during that time would have recognized. The twelve person circles are led by each St. Thomas, the Franciscan, and St...

the Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...

In six pages this paper examines St. Thomas Aquinas' 'proof' that God exists. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

of Christianity is "Thou Shalt Not Kill," and yet Christians have been killing each other, as well as non-Christians, for millenni...

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

In eighteen pages this paper examines how St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of Hippo developed the 'just war' concept and theor...

In five pages William Paley's teleological argument, St. Anselm's ontological argument, and St. Thomas Aquinas' cosmological argum...

course, defines that which is proper conduct, it distinguishes right from wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves so...

"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...

that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...

18). Harrison (2006) credits Aquinas as being the "major figure" in the reintroduction of Aristotelian concepts into Western cul...

be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...

we note that it "covers what we can know by Gods special revelation to us (which comes through the Bible and Christian Tradition)....

supported this argument in support of Gods existence, contending that the external world is the ruling force behind the presence o...

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

appears to vary according to just who is considering the question and around such particulars as whose life is being considered (T...

play nor a reflection of a womans behavior. Equally disturbing as the act of rape itself is when these acts result in pregnancy. ...

in World War II. Not only did Japan attack American soil, and its people, but the United States could no longer ignore the debauch...

belief at the time (The Radical Academy, 2004). God gives this power to the people as a whole, not to individuals (The Radical Aca...

In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...

he could grasp with his own intellect, what he could actually perceive by his own senses, and what a trustworthy person told him. ...

if Charity is "something created in the soul" (Aquinas 17). Without background knowledge on this debate, his points become somewha...

from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...

truth that transcends the traditional means of understanding or knowing. For Aquinas, reason does have limitations. He writes: "N...

In twenty two pages this paper defines sacrament in this overview of the origins of the Christian Sacraments and considers theolog...