1. Pope John Paul II has clearly been teaching that all are elect and predestined for heaven; he has explicitly stated that and has done so with reference to a...
I had intended to make a post to ask everyone to please pray for the pope, John Paul, who is seriously ill. He is in much need of our prayers. Lo and behold...
You just ignored what I said. He was reiterating recapitulation. May God bless and watch over John Paul the Great--more than a Christian, a little Christ. JMJ ...
Are you kidding? The Pope's encyclical clearly points to the reality that God the Father graciously intends and desires that all be saved, and the Church...
I just got the news that the Holy Father John Paul II has went home to Our Father. Today at 1:30pm the Holy Father was pronunced dead by the Vatican. We now...
May the memory of the publicly spoken words, the writings, and the moral example of this great man, perhaps the greatest of all the Popes, be remembered for a...
I will go along with the following by the Holy Father's Letter to Priests on Holy Thursday: 4.) Hoc est enim corpus meum quod pro vobis tradetur. The body and...
On Tuesday, March 29, 2005 4:14 AM, =?Windows-1250?Q?Luk=E1=9A_Nov=E1k?= ... that ... that ... Any ... This is not true. They are known not idectley, but by...
Dennis Polis
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Apr 3, 2005 8:27 pm
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... The fact that we cannot empirically observe active potencies does not mean that they are not actual beings. Only on the basis of empiristic presumptions...
From: http://www.innerexplorations.com/philtext/an.htm An Interview with Wolfgang Smith on Science and Philosophy Biographical Data Wolfgang Smith graduated at...
He life was a living testimony that God is still interested in this world. Rest may he in peace Damola pamela werrbach <pwproietti@...> wrote: May the...
Dennis Polis scripsit: [snip discussion of the seed-development and of the nature of matter and form - treated elsewhere] ... I don't understand the objection....
... Of course not: it is to be both active and passive: but in differnt respects. ... My concern is to _distinguish_ the notions of active and passive potency:...
... I don't quite understand what you mean. AFAIK, the scholastic theory is that there are three grades: the active potency, the habit and the operation. The...
I apologise for having inadvertently sent this post before it was finished - please disregard it, this is the correct final version. ... I don't quite...
Although I admit I've only understood about half of what I've read, I've been loathe to interject any questions lest the flow of this rather intense and highly...
From J.F. Donceel, S.J.: Knowledge of Metaphysical Principles: Whenever we know an object, we affirm, implicitly or explicitly, that "This object is." Such an...
... As far as I am concerned, your questions are most welcome. The greatest problem lack of time... I will reply according to the view I espouse, note that...
Bo, On Tuesday, April 05, 2005 3:30 PM, Bo Zimmerman [SMTP:bo@...] ... intense ... go ... due ... A passive potency is a potency to be a patient, and...
Dennis Polis
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Apr 6, 2005 3:41 am
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Lucas, Aren't accidents and substance beings by analogy? The properly real thing, or the being, is the entire thing which is?...
... According to thomists, substance and accidents aren't beings in the same sense, but substance is being in the primary sense andaccident is being in the...
... You are mixing the concepts of passion and of reaction here. If a hotter body A warms up a colder body B, then there are 2 processes: 1) The "reaction" of...
From: <http://www.hottopos.com.br/notand5/jude.htm> http://www.hottopos.com.br/notand5/jude.htm The Doctrine of Limitation of Act by Potency: Aristotelian or...
St. Thomas on Substantial Unity against the Pluriformists John Goyette Sacred Heart Major Seminary Detroit, Michigan _____ Introduction The aim of this paper...
On Sunday, April 03, 2005 7:13 PM, =?Windows-1250?Q?Luk=E1=9A_Nov=E1k?= ... similar ... the ... with ... only ... the ... I am not speaking here of existence,...
Dennis Polis
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Apr 7, 2005 10:04 pm
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From Henri Renard, S.J.: 1. the difference between being and being: the fact that they differ suggests that there must be many beings. 2. the multiplicity of...
From Santo Tomas de Aquino: To exist by self (per se) is not (strictly speaking) a definition of substance; because by this we do not manifest its quiddity,...
On Wednesday, April 06, 2005 1:46 AM, =?Windows-1250?Q?Luk=E1=9A_Nov=E1k?= ... is a ... are ... This is not a complete vision of what happens here. The...
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