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Philosophy as Habitus
Sed videtur definienda, ut sit, Habitus mentibus humanis a Deo cocessus, industria et exercitio auctus, quo comprehenduntur omnia quae sunt, qua certo & firma ratione comprehendi possunt, ut ad fe… more →
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Philosophy as Habitus
Eric Parker wrote 2 months ago: Sed videtur definienda, ut sit, Habitus mentibus humanis a Deo cocessus, industria et exercitio auct … more →
Jupiter Is God: Calvin on Aratus's Notitia Dei
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Eric Parker wrote 5 months ago: In ipso enim vivimus, movemur, & sumus: sicut & quidam vestratum poetarum dixerunt, Nam huiu … more →
A Reformed Education in Renaissance England
Eric Parker wrote 5 months ago: The following letter is from a young Swiss student Conrad ab Ulmis, writing to one of his sponsors J … more →
Plato's Theism and Martyr's Humanism
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Eric Parker wrote 5 months ago: The Medieval world knew Aristotle from the translations of Boethius and the Muslim commentators, all … more →
God Provides Knowledge: Heinrich Bullinger on Natural Law
Eric Parker wrote 5 months ago: Heinrich Bullinger, the Swiss successor of Zwingli, says that the natural law is an act of the consc … more →
On the Difference Between Philosophy and Theology from Philip Melanchthon's Commentary on Aristotle's Ethics
Eric Parker wrote 6 months ago: When Peter Martyr Vermigli gave his lectures on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics to the students … more →
Reformed Robotics
Eric Parker wrote 7 months ago: Some people within the Reformed world feel that the only way to validate faith is to denigrate reaso … more →
Reason and the Authority of Scripture in Richard Hooker and John Calvin
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Eric Parker wrote 7 months ago: The typical Reformed understanding of Richard Hooker’s “three-fold chord” of autho … more →
The Paradox of Nature
Eric Parker wrote 7 months ago: Hall she be guide to all Creatures, which is her selfe one? Or if she also haue a guide, shall any C … more →
Vermigli on Man's Natural Knowledge of the Final Judgment
Eric Parker wrote 7 months ago: God is set forth to be both mercifull and good, but yet in such sort, that his long sufferyng and pa … more →
Paul, Plato, and Aristotle on the Lex Naturalis: The Interpretation of David Pareus
Eric Parker wrote 7 months ago: David Pareus (d. 1622) is one of those church reformers that most people have never heard of. In fac … more →
John Calvin on Man's Natural Desire to Know
Eric Parker wrote 8 months ago: Calvin says, as Aristotle and numerous others before him, that all men have a natural desire to know … more →
Zanchi's Definition of Natural Law
Eric Parker wrote 9 months ago: I’ve just now taken notice of these discussions by Stephen Grabill on natural law and Protesta … more →
St. Thomas: Faith Must Precede Reason
Eric Parker wrote 10 months ago: The Augustinianism of Thomas Aquinas is often neglected, partly because he does not go to great leng … more →
John Calvin on the Studying of Greek Philosophers de Anima
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Eric Parker wrote 10 months ago: I, indeed, agree that the things they [the philosophers] teach [about the soul] are true, not only e … more →
God's Will as Moral First Principle
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Eric Parker wrote 11 months ago: John Donnelly, in his book on Peter Martyr, refers to the Reformers’ moral theology as a syste … more →
Finding the Mean Between Vices
Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: One huge area of interest for the Christian philosopher is that of the relationship between man … more →
The Telos of the City of Man: The Effects of Sin on Natural Law
Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: Now there was need for man to receive a precept about loving God and his neighbor, because in thus … more →
The Authority of the Philosophers
Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: Roger Olson says that Thomas used Aristotle as an authority in sacra doctrina. Though this is true t … more →
