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Potency, Act, and the Withdrawal of Grace: Thomas Aquinas on Original Sin
Here’s Thomas Aquinas in Summa Contra Gentiles, Book IV, ch. 52: “[We Christians] affirm that man was, from the beginning, so fashioned that as long as his reason was subject to God, not only would his lower powers serve him without … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, God, hell, monsters, philosophy, psychology, sin, Thomas Aquinas
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Two Paths to Self-Control: The Buddha and Jesus vs. Ulysses and Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor
Dan Ariely, a professor of psychology at Duke University, has an interesting recent blog post on self-control, which he frames as a dual dilemma: should we intensively train ourselves to be serene Buddhas, indifferent in the presence of immediate pleasures that might undermine our larger … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddha, crucifixion, Jesus, life, meditation, psychology, sailing, self control, sin, sirens, temptation, Ulysses
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Our Monsters, Ourselves
The MONSTEROUS plays an enormous role in literature and the human imagination—from the Book of Revelation and Dante’s Inferno to Nosferatu and Mad Monster Party. It also plays a large role in politics—as in the demonizing, by the far right, of Barack … Continue reading
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Tagged Book of Revelation, dante, End Times, frankenstein, gandhi, literature, mad monster party, monsters, nonviolence, Satan, sin, violence
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California Gay Marriage Hysteria Watch: James Dobson Compares Gay Marriage to Pearl Harbor
Dorian Davis, a contributing writer to Business Week and the New York Daily News, claims that James Dobson, in one of his books, compared gay marriage to Pearl Harbor. Here’s Davis’s quote: James Dobson, in his 2004 book Marriage Under … Continue reading
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Prometheus Unbound 