Category: Theology
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Creation as a Message from God
Here the fact that something looks so for man does not imply that the way it is, if we prescind from man’s mind, is the more authentic and more real, the more objectively valid. No, the appearance it offers to man belongs to its objective meaning, because God has created “this” world for man. Dietrich…
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Engaging with the Catholic Art Tradition
Every Catholic artist who wants to restore beauty in the Church will look to the past for inspiration. I think most will agree that the Church is living through a dry spell in terms of beauty, but we Western Catholics still have an extraordinarily rich artistic tradition. But it is also a diverse tradition, in…
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On Illustration and the Meaning of Things
So, whereas in every other science things are signified by words, this science has the property, that the things signified by the words have themselves also a signification. St Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, I q.1 a.10. In college I took a class on ancient and medieval philosophy. The professor, who was not herself a Catholic,…