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A Text-Book of Deductive Logic for the Use of Students (1888) P. K. Ray #logic

Medieval Trinitarian Thought from Aquinas to Ockham Russel L. Friedman #trinity

God's goodness and the gift of free will St. John Damascene From his Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, Book IV, chapter 13: "God Who is good and altogether good and more than good, Who is goodness throughout, by reason of the exceeding riches of His goodness did not suffer Himself, that is His nature, only to be good, with no other to participate therein, but because of this He made first the spiritual and heavenly powers: next the visible and sensible universe: next man with his spiritual and sentient nature. All things, therefore, which he made, share in His goodness in respect of their existence. For He Himself is existence to all, since all things that are, are in Him, not only because it was He that brought them out of nothing into being, but because His energy preserves and maintains all that He made: and in special the living creatures. For both in that they exist and in that they enjoy life they share in His goodness. But in truth those of them that have reason have a still greater share in that, both because of what has been already said and also because of the very reason which they possess. For they are somehow more dearly akin to Him, even though He is incomparably higher than they.   Man, however, being endowed with reason and free will, received the power of continuous union with God through his own choice, if indeed he should abide in goodness, that is in obedience to his Maker. Since, however, he transgressed the command of his Creator and became liable to death and corruption, the Creator and Maker of our race, because of His bowels of compassion, took on our likeness, becoming man in all things but without sin, and was united to our nature.For since He b estowed on us His own image and His own spirit and we did not keep them safe, He took Himself a share in our poor and weak nature, in order that He might cleanse us and make us incorruptible, and establish us once more as partakers of His divinity." #freewill

Reasons for the Faith Against Muslim Objections (and one objection of the Greeks and Armenians) to the Cantor of Antioch Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P. translated by Joseph Kenny, O.P. #islam #eucharist #penance #freewill

Reasons for the Faith Against Muslim Objections (and one objection of the Greeks and Armenians) to the Cantor of Antioch Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P. translated by Joseph Kenny, O.P. Foreword Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: How to argue with unbelievers Chapter 3: How generation applies to God Chapter 4: How the Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son Chapter 5: The reason for the incarnation of the Son of God Chapter 6: The meaning of "God became man" Chapter 7: The meaning of "The Word of God suffered" Chapter 8: The meaning of "The faithful receive the body of Christ" Chapter 9: How there is a special place where souls are purified before receiving beatitude Chapter 10: That divine predestination does not impose necessity on human acts http://www.catholicapologetics.info/apologetics/islam/rationes.htm#8 #islam #eucharist #penance #freewill

Teaching Authority in the Early Church (1984) Robert Eno #magisterium

Mastering Logical Fallacies (2016) Michael Withey #logic