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The Dominicans were like the Franciscans in that they were a mendicant order wherein the friars "vowed to live faithfully in pover...

appetite for sex...amounts to being enslaved" and is essentially a sin (Armstrong, 1998). Armstrong (1998) indicates that there ...

In eight pages this research paper contrasts and compares these Christian theologians in terms of their similarities and differenc...

of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...

doubt, people during that time would have recognized. The twelve person circles are led by each St. Thomas, the Franciscan, and St...

In twenty two pages this paper defines sacrament in this overview of the origins of the Christian Sacraments and considers theolog...

of Christianity is "Thou Shalt Not Kill," and yet Christians have been killing each other, as well as non-Christians, for millenni...

In five pages William Paley's teleological argument, St. Anselm's ontological argument, and St. Thomas Aquinas' cosmological argum...

In eighteen pages this paper examines how St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of Hippo developed the 'just war' concept and theor...

"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...

course, defines that which is proper conduct, it distinguishes right from wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves so...

18). Harrison (2006) credits Aquinas as being the "major figure" in the reintroduction of Aristotelian concepts into Western cul...

he could grasp with his own intellect, what he could actually perceive by his own senses, and what a trustworthy person told him. ...

from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...

belief at the time (The Radical Academy, 2004). God gives this power to the people as a whole, not to individuals (The Radical Aca...

In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...

if Charity is "something created in the soul" (Aquinas 17). Without background knowledge on this debate, his points become somewha...

truth that transcends the traditional means of understanding or knowing. For Aquinas, reason does have limitations. He writes: "N...

the Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...

we note that it "covers what we can know by Gods special revelation to us (which comes through the Bible and Christian Tradition)....

various things as they approach in diverse ways toward something that is the greatest, just as in the case of hotter (more hot) wh...

appears to vary according to just who is considering the question and around such particulars as whose life is being considered (T...

play nor a reflection of a womans behavior. Equally disturbing as the act of rape itself is when these acts result in pregnancy. ...

in World War II. Not only did Japan attack American soil, and its people, but the United States could no longer ignore the debauch...

supported this argument in support of Gods existence, contending that the external world is the ruling force behind the presence o...

that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

In eight pages this paper discusses how Aristotelian philosophy is refuted by St. Thomas Aquinas and also discusses the Summa Theo...

The duties of a king to his subjects and their duties to him were viewed somewhat differently by St. Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle....

In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...