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“God is the cause of perfection in the nature and the actions of the creature, but the limitation of the receptivity of the creature is the cause of the defects there are in its action.” Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Freiherr von, Theodicy · insight
“He would not undertake to philosophize respecting the being and character of man, and at the same time exclude from his view the very principle which constitutes his proper humanity.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inqui · insight
Count Boniface retreats to Hippo Regius after a battle, where St. Augustine aids him during a prolonged siege; Gibbon then reflects on Augustine’s zeal, writings, and theology before describing Hippo’s destruction.
c. 1, 2, 3, edit. Ruinart.) The last picture, which was drawn sixty years after the event, is more expressive of the author’s passions than of the truth of facts.] The generous mind of Count Boniface was tortured by the exquisite distress of beholding the ruin which he had occasioned, and whose rapid progress he was unable to check. After the loss of a battle he retired into Hippo Regius; where he …
Abélard laments that slander hurts his reputation more than his earlier bodily injury, cites Augustine on preserving reputation, and supports women accompanying Jesus and apostles with Gospel examples and clerical rulings.
been accomplished with much less pain, being so quick and sudden, for I was heavy with sleep when they laid hands on me, and felt scarcely any pain at all. But alas, I thought, the less I then suffered from the wound, the greater is my punishment now through slander, and I am tormented far more by the loss of my reputation than I was by that of part of my body. For thus is it written: "A good name is rather to be ch…
The passage profiles several major late antique and medieval Church figures and institutions—Jerome, Augustine, St Denis—linking their authority to scholarly and ecclesiastical life in Abelard’s France.
ST. JEROME The enormous scholarship of St. Jerome, born about 340 and dying September 30, 420, made him not only the foremost authority within the Church itself throughout the Middle Ages, but also one of the chief guides to secular scholarship. Abélard repeatedly quotes from him, particularly from his denunciation of the revival of Gnostic heresies by Jovinianus and from some of his voluminous epistles. He also ref…
More translator’s notes expand on Pascal’s scriptural and patristic references (especially from Augustine), while giving brief identifications for quoted Latin and biblical phrases.
[239] P. 184, l. 31. *Forma futuri.*--Romans v, 14. [240] P. 186, l. 13. *The Messiah*, etc.--John xii, 34. [241] P. 186, l. 30. *If the light*, etc.--Matthew vi, 23. [242] P. 187, l. 1. *Somnum suum.*--Ps. lxxvi, 5. [243] P. 187, l. 1. *Figura hujus mundi.*--1 Cor. vii, 31. [244] P. 187, l. 2. *Comedes panem tuum.*--Deut. viii, 9. _Panem nostrum,_ Luke xi, 3. [245] P. 187, l. 3. *Inimici Dei terram linge…
He clarifies that grace enables conversion without human cooperation except resisting, argues that unregenerate people can still perform civic virtues, and surveys ongoing Catholic and Protestant controversies.
Doctor of the Sorbonne. And these misconceptions would have become plain to the reader at the outset if my own words, which were being taken in evidence, had been quoted. This tendency of men to make mistakes in presenting the opinions of others leads me to observe also, that when I said somewhere that man helps himself in conversion through the succour of grace, I mean only that he derives advantage from it through…
Leibniz defends the privation theory of evil by analogizing inertia in riverboats: God causes positive speed while the creature’s limited receptivity explains retardation and privative defects.
positive. This answer is accounted a quibble, and even something chimerical in the minds of many people. But here is an instance somewhat similar, which will serve to disabuse them. 30. The celebrated Kepler and M. Descartes (in his letters) after him have spoken of the 'natural inertia of bodies'; and it is something which may be regarded as a perfect image and even as a sample of the original limitation of creatur…
The philosophy taught does not replace religion but integrates it: scripture and revelation illuminate the constitution of humanity, so seekers of self-knowledge should use Augustine, Paul, and John.
others, for a light and a joy to their own minds, it must still remain, and be sought for by us, each for himself, at the bottom of the well. The system of philosophy here taught does not profess to make men philosophers, or--which ought to mean the same thing--to guide them to the knowledge of themselves, without the labour both of attention and of severe thinking. If it did so, it would have, like the more popular…