Looking for a Good Read?
One
such place might be the Resource Room (G16) in the Christian
Education Wing of this church.
A recent acquisition has presented
us with the opportunity to revisit some of those who have helped
shape our beliefs.
In a series of paperback books, the authors
have made available to us , in an accessible way , a path to
further knowledge.
One of these books is AQUINAS
for Armchair Theologians.
An
excerpt:
Thomas Aquinas ranks among the three or four most influential
thinkers in the history of not merely Christianity but of Western
thought in general. Aquinas’s theory of natural law shaped
our modern concept of human rights. His views of the state supplied
the model for the arguments of Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration
of Independence.His views on the Justice of Warfare and the status
of noncombatants have codified into international law and can be
found in U. S. military handbooks. Seven hundred years after his
death his proofs of God’s existence are still the most discussed
by philosophers. And the compromise he worked out between faith
and reason - his answer to the question, “How can I be a
religious person and still accept the claims of science ?” – is
the answer adopted by most modern Christians to this day.
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