St. Thomas Aquinas: On the Image of God in Man
The image of God is in man in three ways.
The image of God is in man in three ways.
It belongs to the essence of goodness to overflow, to communicate itself to others. Goodness cannot keep itself to itself.
The judicial precepts established by men retain their binding force for ever, so long as the state of government remains the same.
Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 5th-6th century AD) is the author most associated with the triplex via or "threefold way" of naming God. Under this schema, we can denote God on the basis of the perfections of creatures. This form of naming God is analogical, and is to be understood in a kind of logical succession, each one qualifying and perfecting that which precedes it.
Today we are going to answer the question: What happened to those people who came out of their graves when Jesus died and rose again per Matthew 27:51-53?
Today we are going to answer the question: What happens to people when they die? Where do they go? Are they awake or asleep?