St. Augustine, he understands how hard it is to try to think about such things as we are supposed to in studying theology:
Noli quaerere quid sit veritas; statim enim se opponent caliginem imaginum corporalium et nubila phantasmatum... (De Trinitate VIII:3)
Don't ask what truth is; immediately there will be against you a fog of bodily images and clouds of funny ideas.
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I hope your course won't circumvent Aquinas, Father. He builds on his predecessors but has the advantage of a more developed philosophical/theological system.
I found his account of subsistent relations to be enlightening when it came to understanding divine personhood (insofar as one can understand it).
I have the impression that some modern theologians try to avoid St Thomas. Sick men with an aversion to wholesome food?
It is true that Thomas, even among his contemporaries, has a certain refreshing clarity.
Regretting my last paragraph: casting aspersions and feeding paranoia.
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