Aquinas! Aquinas! Aquinas!

**Ani Ibi** · #1 May 4, '07, 10:04 am

Can we read any of Aquinas's works?

**Dale_M** · #2 May 4, '07, 11:10 am

With all due respect to the good Doctor, might he be a bit challenging (and perhaps, dry?)

**Ani Ibi** · #3 May 4, '07, 1:47 pm

By the way for those folks who get a message saying that they have no access to this forum, you have to sign up for the book club first. Sign up and then you can vote and post to your hearts content.

Anne Carmel · #4 May 4, '07, 10:15 pm

There has already been a book chosen for this round. Divine Mercy in My Soul, St. Faustina. Perhaps this could be considered for the next title.

**Ani Ibi** · #5 May 5, '07, 7:46 am

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Originally Posted by Anne Carmel

There has already been a book chosen for this round. Divine Mercy in My Soul, St. Faustina. Perhaps this could be considered for the next title.

OK. Thank you. St Faustina is a good choice.

WanderAimlessly · #6 May 5, '07, 4:44 pm

Maybe if you get the Philosophy Forum, you can do it there

mommyof4 · #7 May 5, '07, 5:03 pm

Please come over and join us for the DM discussion - we will begin sometime next week.

WanderAimlessly · #8 May 5, '07, 5:06 pm

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Originally Posted by mommyof4

Please come over and join us for the DM discussion - we will begin sometime next week.

I may not be there for the beginning since I am moving at the end of the week. I should have my DSL connection on Saturday

mommyof4 · #9 May 5, '07, 5:26 pm

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Originally Posted by WanderAimlessly

I may not be there for the beginning since I am moving at the end of the week. I should have my DSL connection on Saturday

You're welcome any time!

**Ani Ibi** · #10 May 6, '07, 6:34 am

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Originally Posted by mommyof4

Please come over and join us for the DM discussion - we will begin sometime next week.

Thanks Mo4. I may lurk.

**lak611** · #11 May 9, '07, 3:37 pm

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Originally Posted by Anne Carmel

There has already been a book chosen for this round. Divine Mercy in My Soul, St. Faustina. Perhaps this could be considered for the next title.

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Originally Posted by Ani Ibi

OK. Thank you. St Faustina is a good choice.

I would be more interested in Aquinas, so I'll pass on the Divine Mercy book. I'll be lurking in the book club forum to see what the next book is.

cpayne · #12 May 10, '07, 8:00 pm

Hi, everyone. In case the Aquinas book eventually gets under way, I would recommend either G.K. Chesterton's book (available online) or Peter Kreeft's "A Shorter Summa," which contains the original sources (selected), but also a whole bunch of very helpful explanatory notes.

I'm so new at this, I don't even know which Catholic authors are considered "essential" and which are okay and which are so-so. I will go along with whatever is chosen.

Hunho · #13 May 11, '07, 8:50 pm

Why don't all of you Thomas Aquinas people come on over to the St. Faustina's Diary: A Discussion thread and apply Thomistic insight to St. Faustina's writings, especially on the subject of mercy? In the movie Faustina a priest commented on St. Faustina's ideas on mercy comparing to those of Aquinas and Augustine (whose works she had apparently never read). Comparisons from the Aquinas side might be interesting.