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5 comments:
Take a little caution... Thomists believe man can exercise reason perfectly even after the fall, since it is not "fallen". It can interfere with a little thing I call depravity... and bverything man touches since the fall, even the way he fools himself about reasoning...
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I promise not to fall headlong into Thomism. Don't worry. :-) Or into Esolenism either, as far as that goes.
Yes, sin is an important doctrine, isn't it? :-)
But I like Aquinas and Esolen both, in general. Hence the links.
Regardless of St. Thomas' view of human reason (and it is described correctly here), we can examine his arguments about law for truth or falsity independent of that--unless of course one believes the Fall destroys human reason, in which case one can't argue about anything at all. I think (imperfectly) that St. Thomas has made good use of his imperfect reason to lay out a solid Christian understanding of law. I am not expert enough on the subject in general to say whether his view is perfect, but I do not see flaws in it.
But then again, oversimplification might not be terrible, seeing as we only had 40 minutes to present all 6 of the WV's take on law. Sometimes oversimplification can make something graspable. Just so long as we didn't teach something false...
Good words.
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