Learned this last night at the mission, too: It is also a principle of St. Thomas Aquinas philosophy that whatever is received, is received according to the mode of the receiver (as opposed to the mode of the one giving whatever is received). Therefore, even though God can do anything doable, if He is to communicate with humans who must, by their very nature (of which He also is the author), think by making use of images, He must communicate in a way which humans can understand. Thus, even in the supernatural realm of divine revelation, the grace of God does not destroy (human) nature, but builds on it (another Thomistic principle). As a result, Aquinas says that it is appropriate that Sacred Scripture makes use of signs in order that God communicate with man ( ST Ia, 1, 9). Chew on that for a while! Going to hit the third night of the mission in a few minutes.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 01:16:28 +0000
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