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Hubble’s view deep inside the Eagle Nebula,
looking at a feature that’s now known as the "Pillars of Creation."
I must confess that philosophy challenges me but I get drawn into it as my faith seeks understanding. Recently Aquinas’ writings on Creation have been the stimulus. I am in awe of St. Thomas ability to encompass so much in his thinking on this topic and to make it all fit the Scriptures.
This is from an article I’ve been reading:
“Creation not only comes first, as it were, in our God’s transactions with the world; it is also true that the way we understand that founding relation will affect our attempts to articulate any further interaction. For were the One who reached out to us ‘in Christ’ not the creator of heaven and earth, the story would have to be told in a vastly different (and inescapably mythic) idiom, as indeed it has often been on the part of Christians so preoccupied with redemption that creation is simply presumed as its stage-setting.”
This is a reading selection from “The Act of Creation and Its Theological Consequences” by David Burrell that deals with St. Thomas Aquinas’ writings on Creation. You can find it here:
payingattentiontothesky.com/2010/08/06/the-act-of-creation-and-its-theological-consequences-aquinas%e2%80%99-strategies/
dj
Hubble’s view deep inside the Eagle Nebula,
looking at a feature that’s now known as the "Pillars of Creation."
I must confess that philosophy challenges me but I get drawn into it as my faith seeks understanding. Recently Aquinas’ writings on Creation have been the stimulus. I am in awe of St. Thomas ability to encompass so much in his thinking on this topic and to make it all fit the Scriptures.
This is from an article I’ve been reading:
“Creation not only comes first, as it were, in our God’s transactions with the world; it is also true that the way we understand that founding relation will affect our attempts to articulate any further interaction. For were the One who reached out to us ‘in Christ’ not the creator of heaven and earth, the story would have to be told in a vastly different (and inescapably mythic) idiom, as indeed it has often been on the part of Christians so preoccupied with redemption that creation is simply presumed as its stage-setting.”
This is a reading selection from “The Act of Creation and Its Theological Consequences” by David Burrell that deals with St. Thomas Aquinas’ writings on Creation. You can find it here:
payingattentiontothesky.com/2010/08/06/the-act-of-creation-and-its-theological-consequences-aquinas%e2%80%99-strategies/
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