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Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
... . XI. Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas. Editor: A. M. Fairweather, Lecturer in ...
Of God and His Creatures by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
CHAPTER LXXIV—Of the Opinion of Avicenna, who supposed Intellectual Forms not to be preserved in the Potential Intellect Which is tantamount to supposing that there is no intellectual memory, but a series of recurring inspirations from without.
Of God and His Creatures by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
CHAPTER LXXVI—That the Active Intellect is not a separately Subsisting Intelligence, but a Faculty of the Soul WE may further conclude that neither is the active intellect one in all men,…
Of God and His Creatures by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
CHAPTER C—That Intelligences subsisting apart know Individual Things INASMUCH as the likenesses representative of things in the mind of a separately subsistent intelligence are more universal than in our mind,…
Of God and His Creatures by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
A WORD in conclusion from the translator, or restorer. There has been present in my mind throughout my task the figure which I employed in the preface,…
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler by Augustine, Saint (354-430)
Like a colossus bestriding two worlds, Augustine stands as the last patristic and the first medieval father of Western Christianity. He gathered together and conserved all the main motifs of Latin Christianity from Tertullian to Ambrose; he appropriated the heritage of Nicene orthodoxy;…
NPNF2-07. Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
I. This then is what might be said to cut short our opponents’ readiness to argue and their hastiness with its consequent insecurity in all matters, but above all in those discussions which relate to God.
Interior Castle or The Mansions by Teresa of Avila, St. (Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, 1515-1582)
THE INTERIOR CASTLE OR THE MANSIONS The Benedictines of Stanbrook desire to express their gratitude to the very Rev. Benedict Zimmerman for having kindly revised the translation of the ‘Interior Castle’ and also for the Introduction, Notes, and Index which he has added to the book.
Doctrine of the Saints' Perseverance Explained and Confirmed by Owen, John (1616-1683)
Reader, If thy inquiry be only after the substance of the truth in the ensuing treatise contended for, I desire thee not to stay at all upon this preliminary discourse, but to proceed thither where it is expressly handled from the Scriptures, without the intermixture of any human testimonies or other less necessary circumstances,…
Sermons of John Owen by Owen, John (1616-1683)
Sermon I. A vision of unchangeable, free mercy, in sending the means of grace to undeserving sinners. “And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.” — Acts xvi.