#Aquinas: “Brave great dangers for great things, e.g. the common welfare, #justice, divine worship." Jeremiah: “The Lord is w/ me like a brave #warrior.” #RabbiHeschel talks about "urgency of justice” & “to do justice is what God demands of every person." bit.ly/3M5Nlw4 bit.ly/4nZgt5y #JungleKeepers

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The Tao of Thomas Aquinas: Fierce Wisdom for Hard Times — Welcome from Matthew Fox

(Also available in audiobook - digital or cd set) A stunning Spiritual Handbook drawn from the substantive teachings of a mystical/prophetic genius offering a sublime roadmap for spirituality and action. Foreword by Ilia Delio. Afterword by Jerry Maynard

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#Aquinas: “Brave great dangers for great things, e.g. the common welfare, #justice, divine worship." Jeremiah: “The Lord is with me like a brave #warrior.” #RabbiHeschel talks about "urgency of justice” & “to do justice is what God demands of every person." bit.ly/3M5Nlw4
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#Aquinas: A #tyrant fears good persons more than bad persons, for he dreads their strange virtue. Yes, virtue is strange to those bent on power, e.g. T calling those who died for #democracy #suckersandlosers. Their virtue is utterly strange to him. #NoKings bit.ly/AQ45 bit.ly/3Tz8mQW
#Aquinas: "The proper objects of the ❤️ are #Truth & #Justice." Truth & justice ride together. #Lies & #injustice travel as companions. Lies pave the way to injustice. https://bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

Aquinas and the Ethics of Happiness by Joseph Stenberg, 2025

Aquinas sees the key elements of his ethics - happiness, law, virtue, and grace - as an interconnected whole. However, he seldom steps back to help his reader see how they actually fit together. In this book, Joseph Stenberg reconsiders the most fundamental ways in which Aquinas connects these major elements of his ethics.

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#Aquinas: " #Compassion is the fire which the Lord has come to send on the earth"; #RabbiHeschel: "To sense the living God is to sense infinite #goodness, infinite #wisdom, infinite #beauty. Such a sensation is a sensation of #joy." Joy & celebration are integral to compassion. https://bit.ly/4kxtIcG
#Aquinas dared to say that “#sins of the #spirit are far more grave than sins of the #flesh” because the latter takes one toward #God, but the former takes one away from God. https://bit.ly/4k5bFKL
Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh (Revised Edition): Transforming Evil in Soul and Society — Welcome from Matthew Fox

Fox makes the point that religion has so often oversold the concept of “sin” that it has left us without language or power to combat evil. He compares the Eastern tradition of the 7 chakras to the Western tradition of the 7 capital sins. Fox allows us to think creatively about our capacity for perso

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Thomas Aquinas died from head trauma, study suggests - Medievalists.net

A recent study has revisited the mysterious death of Thomas Aquinas, one of the most influential theologians and philosophers of the Middle Ages

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#Aquinas: "The state-community should be such that everything sufficient for the needs of human life is found in it. #PoliticalJustice exists among the #free and #equal; in people who do not have freedom and justice, there is not found political justice." https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/13/aquinas-on-justice-the-cosmos-the-common-good-the-rich/
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Aquinas on Justice, the Cosmos, the Common Good & the Rich - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox

Aquinas looks to the entire universe for its habits that humans can emulate.  He teaches that all of nature follows a love of the whole, the common good therefore.  Even stones follow that rule.  Each part of creation naturally loves the common good of the whole more than its own particular good.  This is evidenced by its operation, […]

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