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In the season of Aquinas’s feast day, I am sharing a poem I gathered from Aquinas’s sentences that form the chapter titles of my recent
I am writing this DM on January 28 which is the Feast Day of Thomas Aquinas. It won’t appear until Monday, however, so it will be
January 23, 2023. MLK, Chenu & Aquinas on Nondualism and the Body Politic.Aquinas reminds us that the common good is more divine that personal liberties.
Chenu admires Aquinas for the importance he gives to matter. Remember Aquinas tells us that this is why he preferred Aristotle to Plato, because Aristotle “does
A non-dualistic attitude toward matter and body results in a non-dualistic attitude toward the body politic. Democracy or an effort at fairness and justice, a spirituality
We have been considering non-dualism as championed by MLK Jr and Pere Chenu, feminist writer Rosemary Ruether, Thich Nhat Hanh and many more. Non-dualism includes
Thomas Aquinas says that “God is said to be nonbeing (non existens) not because God is lacking in being but because God is beyond all
In our recent daily meditations, we have been praising and therefore thanking Earth and Air, Fire and Water. As Thomas Berry put it in a recent
Cultural critic bell hooks is in agreement with Aquinas who, as we saw yesterday, says that truth and justice lie in the heart. hooks tells us
In a recent DM we learned from Hannah Arendt that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world is destroyed when politicians lie
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