Best Univ. for PhD in Thomistic Philo. &/or Theo.?

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Domer1997 said:
I am assuming you are Pope Benedict since Notre Dame can only be declared “non-Catholic” by his holiness. Don’t throw your “opinions” around as fact. IT IS A CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY AND ALWAYS WILL BE. NOTHING YOU CAN DO WILL EVER CHANGE THAT!

…walk humbly with God my friend.
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Chill out my friend. I actually meant my original comment somewhat unseriously, and I was wondering if anybody would get the little joke.

However, with the issue brought up, I do think they have serious problems.
 
grannymh said:
Because of a writing project, I am interested in contacting Thomists. Who would you suggest?
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Matthew Kostelecky at St. Joseph’s College at the University of Alberta
Peter Kreeft at Boston College
 
Roy5 said:
Those doubts weren’t helped any, and Aquinas lost some of his lure with me, when one day I ran across his proposal that the church should not kill heretics. No, instead the church should turn them over to the civil authorities to be executed!
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Where did he write this? It sounds similar to the Church’s lack of a flat-out rejection of capital punishment.
 
grannymh said:
I’m sorry too. Even the big guys fall into sin.
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Roy5 said:
Those doubts weren’t helped any, and Aquinas lost some of his lure with me, when one day I ran across his proposal that the church should not kill heretics. No, instead the church should turn them over to the civil authorities to be executed!
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 I completed my thesis and actually received a good grade, but my enthusiasm for Aquinas never has returned. He was brilliant well-organized, and prolific. But his comment re heretics lost my forever. Sorry.
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Before accusing a doctor of the Church with sin or discrediting all his brilliant work by one statement, perhaps it would help to re-read, in context, his statement addressing “Whether heretics ought to be tolerated?” (Summa Theol., II-II:11:3 corpus):
With regard to heretics two points must be observed: one, on their own side; the other, on the side of the Church. On their own side there is the sin, whereby they deserve not only to be separated from the Church by excommunication, but also to be severed from the world by death. For it is a much graver matter to corrupt the faith which quickens the soul, than to forge money, which supports temporal life. Wherefore if forgers of money and other evil-doers are forthwith condemned to death by the secular authority, much more reason is there for heretics, as soon as they are convicted of heresy, to be not only excommunicated but even put to death.
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On the part of the Church, however, there is mercy which looks to the conversion of the wanderer, wherefore she condemns not at once, but “after the first and second admonition,” as the Apostle directs: after that, if he is yet stubborn, the Church no longer hoping for his conversion, looks to the salvation of others, by excommunicating him and separating him from the Church, and furthermore delivers him to the secular tribunal to be exterminated thereby from the world by death. For Jerome commenting on Galatians 5:9, “A little leaven,” says: “Cut off the decayed flesh, expel the mangy sheep from the fold, lest the whole house, the whole paste, the whole body, the whole flock, burn, perish, rot, die. Arius was but one spark in Alexandria, but as that spark was not at once put out, the whole earth was laid waste by its flame.”
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Geremia said:
What are the best Catholic colleges or universities to get a PhD in Thomistic philosophy and/or theology? Thanks
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I would recommend the Catholic Univeristy of America in Wash DC. It has a leading Thomist on the faculty. But it would also provide the best grounding in ancient, modern and twentieth century philosophy.
 
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