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The study of sixteenth-century Spanish scholastic authors has progressed considerably during the last hundred years, not only through the analysis of primary sources, but also through the transcription of many of the innumerable manuscript materials of this period. However, no less a contribution to our knowledge of this period has been made by the careful review of the archives and the identification of these manuscripts.
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The present work corresponds to the doctoral thesis of Professor David Torrijos defended at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Navarra. His author exposes in this successful text some very important contributions of Pedro de Ledesma in the framework of the discussions about the efficacy of grace. As in other works by Professor David Torrijos, a very rigorous historical study of the sources goes hand in hand with a speculative interest that shows the value of the texts studied. In addition, this book has an interesting presentation by Father Bonino.
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Aaron Zubia’s book on Hume’s political thought delivers much more than what the title promises. It is a thorough investigation on the roots and fruits of Hume’s political views, which means that it demonstrates the deep connection between his metaphysics, his theology, his ethics, on the one hand, and his political philosophy and his historical researches, on the other. Based on the established connection, the book criticizes the liberal idea of “public reason” and demonstrates that we need to go back to the classical roots or our civilization.
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This book gathers a series of articles on the subject of friendship written by a group of international, but mainly Spanish, scholars. The book opens with a prologue written by Lydia Jiménez González, followed by an article by the auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Madrid, Juan Antonio Martínez Camino, who presents the importance of the notion of friendship with Christ in the Christian life.
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Francisco Canals’ political thought occupies an important place in his inte- llectual work, although it is perhaps the least known. Much of this doctrinal corpus has been compiled in countless newspaper articles or in journals such as Cristiandad and Verbo. One of the most compelling aspects of his political analysis is his study of moderan- tism, or political centrism. Within the context of the Spanish history, this was a political current that sought to draw traditionalist Catholics towards liberalism. Canals does not limit himself to a purely historical analysis, rather, informed by his Thomist formation, he aims to show how these political dynamics lead to the secularisation of society.
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In this work we investigate a trait of religiosity in the Golden Age. We refer to a common belief in the inconsistence of human action. The awareness about the dete- rioration of willingness causes a religiosity of personal inadequacy. This kind of religiosity splits into different cultural, philosophical and theological manifestations. Considering the own moral inadecuacy, we can better understand some characteristics of Golden mind, as the intellectualism, the insistence in theological virtues over the moral ones, or the primacy of Grace.
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St Thomas brings together in the crucifixion the double mission of Jesus Christ as Saviour and Master. His spirituality is marked by an intense devotion to the Crucified One, manifested in his synthetic and catechetical works, but above all in his biblical commentaries. The Crucified is Master because the crucifixion reveals the divine power and the fully human life of Christ noticeable in his virtues. In this way, the Cruci- fied One is presented as doctrine and as doctor: he is the best book in which to contempla- te the mystery of God and he is the Master who teaches from the chair of the cross.
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The aim of this article is to present the theory of Pedro de Ledesma on the relation between God’s infinite perfection and the perfections of creatures. Its main thesis states that Ledesma, in an effort to preserve God’s infinity, embraces ideas usually associated with pantheism. Nevertheless, in order to maintain the distinction between God and creatures, he develops a complex conceptual apparatus grounded in Scholastic philosophy, mainly that of Thomas Aquinas’ metaphysics of being, which results in a form of Thomistic panentheism.
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Due to its rational modality and to its commun object, the human un- derstandig is deeply marked by a resolutive dynamic. Its nature cannot escape this one. Humanly, this dynamic finds its supreme expression in the metaphysical science. Under the imperatif of the being, the latter grants to the understandig acces to the subsisting being itself, through an analogical knowledge, but it does not seem sufficient to quiet this dynamic. The stillness of this dynamic could only be verified if the subsisting being itself is reached in itself. For this to happen, it is necessary that the subsisting being itself takes the initiative.
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This article examines Thomas Aquinas’ inaugural lecture Rigans Montes with the aim not only of understanding his early reflections on the master and its value but also of exploring whether his doctrine on the act of teaching—later developed in works such as De Veritate and the Summa Theologiae—is already present in this work, where his thought is more mature.
