Word: aquinases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the Treasury. Indulgences first appeared in the 11th century. In those days, the time to be served in penance for sin was often so long that it stretched beyond the penitent's life expectancy, and the indulgence granted for some special act of piety enabled him to cut...
Father Joseph H. Fichter is an example of this sometimes disconcerting blend of past and present. Fichter was appointed to the Divinity School faculty this fall as Chauncy Stillman Professor of Catholic Studies. But unlike his predecessors, who lectured in medieval history, Fichter holds a Harvard Ph.D. in sociology. Although...
Praising the Lord and passing the alms, man has fought poverty for more than 5,000 years-but until recently without any real expectation that the fight could ever be won. Hinduism and Buddhism encouraged almsgiving but reconciled themselves to poverty by suggesting that it is a requisite for man...
A Handsome Apple. St. Thomas Aquinas, the most profound thinker of the Middle Ages, declared that contraception "does injury to God." Nonetheless, says Noonan, the Scholastic theologians of the 13th century also began to abandon Augustine's grim view that sex apart from procreation was sinful. Aquinas' mentor...
For Second-Rate Minds. Lonergan is a lonely figure inside the church, an ignored one outside it. The unfashionably Thomistic starting point of his vision repels non-Catholic thinkers grappling with the same issues; yet his unconventional revision of Aquinas outrages many doctrinaire Thomists. He has steered clear of ecclesiastical...