by Revista Espíritu | 168-2024
Benedict XVI teaches that the current crisis of faith would originate from the replacement of Christian hope in the kingdom of God with worldly hope in the kingdom of man.
In the language of Thomas Aquinas, this process of despair involves aversion (aversio) from the formal object of Christian hope and conversion (conversio) towards created goods.
This conversion –which seeks the reestablishment of earthly pa- radise– is eventually caused by the loss of faith but is immediately caused by the vice of acedia.
To this connection drawn up by Saint Thomas, we must add the role that the German Pontiff attributes to suffering in the origin of theological despair.
by Revista Espíritu | 164-2022, Uncategorized
The formal reason of Deity crossed the life and work of R. Garrigou-Lagrange and from whose contemplation the philosophical, theological and mystical aspects of his thought radiated. This formal reason assumes not only the multiplicity of absolute perfections found in creatures and analogically predicated of God, but also his one and triune essence. Our work seeks to investigate the roots, development and contribution of Fr. Garrigou’s thought for the contemplation of the divine essence according to the imperfect way of the human intellect during this life and the participation of this essence through sanctifying grace…
by Revista Espíritu | 155-2018
Different from the natural order, the habit of the first supernatural principles is not an atoma species but a gender of intellectual habits, in which the gift of intellectus excels. For an adequate understanding of it, Santiago Ramírez rescues two particular aspects of St. Thomas’ thought: one philosophical, the real distinction that exists between disposition and habit in the qualitas predicament; and other theological, the real distinction between infused virtues and gifts of the Holy Spirit.
