Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essaysRobert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopædia Britannica, 1963 - 644 pages Complements Great Books of the Western World; includes only short works and excerpts from longer works. |
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Page 425
... Church , Thomas next built God into the walls and towers of His Church , in the Trinity and its creation of mind and matter in time and space ; then finally he filled the Church by uniting mind and matter in man , or man's soul , giving ...
... Church , Thomas next built God into the walls and towers of His Church , in the Trinity and its creation of mind and matter in time and space ; then finally he filled the Church by uniting mind and matter in man , or man's soul , giving ...
Page 426
... Church could not accept this deity because the Church required a God who caused the universe . The two deities destroyed each other . One was passive ; the other active . Thomas warned Descartes of a logical quicksand which must ...
... Church could not accept this deity because the Church required a God who caused the universe . The two deities destroyed each other . One was passive ; the other active . Thomas warned Descartes of a logical quicksand which must ...
Page 438
... church ; if man failed to fill it , the church and the Trinity seemed equally failures . Empty , Bourges and Beauvais are cold ; hardly as religious as a wayside cross ; and yet , even empty , they are perhaps more religious than when ...
... church ; if man failed to fill it , the church and the Trinity seemed equally failures . Empty , Bourges and Beauvais are cold ; hardly as religious as a wayside cross ; and yet , even empty , they are perhaps more religious than when ...
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