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article Augustine on marriage, monasticism and the community of the Church The author attempts to situate Augustine's the­ology of marriage in the broad historical and theological context of the early Church. She does so by connecting his view of mar­riage to his thinking on virginity and monastic life, and espe­cially by integrating his views on all three states against the background of church preoccupations about the year 400. This more comprehensive account of Augustine's views draws upon the Confessions, On the Good of Marriage, On Holy Virginity, and On the Work of Monks . #monasticism #marriage #celibacy

Christian Monasticism - A Great Force in History (1925) Ian C. Hannah #monasticism

Outline of Catholic Christology The Person of Jesus Christ Christ is both true God and true man. According to Catholic doctrine, the cause of the unity of the divine and human natures in Christ is the Divine Person of the Son of God (the second person of the Holy Trinity), and this union of the two natures is called the Hypostatic Union. It is precisely the Word of God, that is, the Divine Person, and not a divine-human person, that ensures Jesus Christ, despite having two natures, remains one being. The human nature of Christ does not possess its own human personality but was assumed by the Word and exists through the Word. The Two Natures of Christ Despite the unity of person in Christ, there is no single divine-human nature. The Lord Jesus has two natures: divine and human, which remain unmixed and unchanged, and His divine nature did not absorb the human nature. As a result, Christ remains fully God and fully man. The Two Wills in Christ Because Christ has two natures, He also has two wills: divine and human. It must be emphasized that there was never a true conflict between them; rather, Christ’s human will remained forever obedient to His divine will. The prayer of the Lord Jesus in Gethsemane is evidence and an illustration of the existence of two wills. The Human Nature of Christ Christ possesses a complete and unchanged human nature. This means that He has a true human body, not merely an apparent body, as, for example, angels had when they appeared in human form. The Lord Jesus also possesses a rational human soul, which is the form of His human body. It follows that the Word of God did not take the place or function of the human soul, as then Christ could not be called a true man. The Hypostatic Union encompassed the whole of Christ, meaning that both the body and soul of the Savior were united with His divinity. The rational human soul of Christ, due to its union with the divinity, possessed perfect knowledge from the very beginning, which means that the Lord Jesus, even as a man, possessed relative omniscience and had this knowledge during His time on earth. source: Fr. M. Siemiatycki, Outline of Catholic Dogmatics #christology

St. Augustine, confirming the teaching of the Ecumenical Council of Florence, affirms in de Trinit., lib. 15, cap. 26, that the Holy Ghost receives the divine essence from both the Father and the Son. #trinity

The monastic roots of urban self -government source: The monks who made Europe https://broadstreet.blog/2022/05/20/the-monks-who-made-europe/ #monasticism

The Catholic Church and European State Formation, AD 1000-1500 J. Møller, J.S. Doucette Addresses one of the big questions of social science: why medieval and early modern Europe came to be characterized by geopolitical competition and strong social groups The first book by social scientists to systematically analyse the importance of the Catholic Church for European state-formation "The Church's involvement in European state formation was not a simple process of one institution dominating another. It was a complex interplay of religious, political, and social forces. The Church's reform movement, while aimed at strengthening the Church, inadvertently contributed to the rise of new forms of political organization and the fragmentation of existing power structures. This unique European development, characterized by power pluralism, self-government, and a multi-state system, is argued to be inconceivable without the influence of the Catholic Church." #churchhistory

Scholastic economics (1250-1776) might be called “AAA” economics because it began when Aquinas first integrated four elements (production, exchange, distribution and consumption), all drawn from Aristotle and Augustine, to describe personal, domestic and political economy within scholastic natural law — all normatively measured by the Two Great Commandments: “You shall love God with all your heart” and “You shall love your neighbor as yourself”. The scholastic economic system is comprehensive, logically complete, can be stated mathematically and (suitably updated) is empirically verifiable. Since Adam Smith essentially “de-Augustinized” economics, it’s important to understand Augustine’s theories of benevolence and beneficence, which Aquinas integrated within the scholastic natural law moral philosophy and economic theory, which prevailed for five centuries before Smith. #economics