Works of Saint Thomas Aquinas: On KingshipAquinas, Saint Thomas
“You shall not bow down to them.” Since many Catholics sometimes bow or kneel in front of statues of Jesus and the saints, anti-Catholics confuse the legitimate veneration of a sacred image with the sin of idolatry. As Christians, it’s important for us to understand that though bowing ...
Athens (Greece), Republican Rome, Venice and Switzerland (the only two then existing constitutional republics in the world), and the Constitutional Monarchy of England (unique in its own right). And, last but not least, ancient Israel and the wisdom of the Holy Bible regarding kingship and ru...
In Thomas of Erfurt’sGrammatica speculativa, the modis tic determination to describe grammar in itself is again unmistakable; but the study of language as a phenomenon of convention, which had otherwise opposed medieval notions of the natural presence of meaning, reveals that language theory throug...
This is what real kingship looks like: selfless love and sacrifice. This is what Jesus offers the world in the Eucharist — His self-giving love with the power to transform the world. God gives Himself to us, so the world can share Eternal Life in Him. It is not about acquiring and ...
St. Thomas Aquinas: Economics of the Just Society Many of Aquinas' writings have been consulted in writing this paper includingthe Summa Theologica, Summa Contra Gentiles, "On Buying and Selling on Credit", On Kingship, Compendium of Theology, "Letter to the Duchess of Brabant", and mor......
The “problem is”, my dear DWC, NOT in God’s Omniscient, NOT in God’s Omnipresence, NOT in God’s Omnipotence NOR in Jesus Christ’s KINGSHIP over all that is seen and Unseen. The “problem is” in people both INSIDE as well as OUTSIDE of the Church in NOT RECOGNIZING the Bisho...
As indicated at the beginning of this piece, over time there is some convergence between Tacitus’ respect for barbarian liberty and Xenophon’s interest in good kingship in a ‘barbarian’ (as in non-Greek, though not as in backward) state, that is the Persian Empire. ...
The Priest and the King in Hierarchy:on Louis Dumont's The Conception of Kingship in Ancient India I. The Caste System and the Hierar-chy:Dumont and his Indian Study As one of the most important anthropologists in 20th century, Louis Dumont, on one hand,... C Zha,Z Yuan 被引量: 0...
Boring suggests that this scene can be placed in contrast with the homage paid to Jesus by the Magi (Mt. 2:1-12). “In contrast to the universal practice of kingship in this world, the true king receives violence rather than inflicting it.” (Boring p. 488) ...