Aristotle

The most beautiful thing in the world

by Tim Muldoon

…is a child sleeping.  I am sometimes awed by just the feeling that rises up in me when beholding one of my daughters asleep; it is an intense experience of grace. What makes that statement more than pious nonsense, I think, is the fact that the experience can come unbidden even a short time after [...]

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Faith and Action

by Tim Muldoon

Ignatian spirituality owes a great debt to Aristotle. Not a surprise, really–Ignatius absorbed the theology of Thomas Aquinas, who imbibed the philosophy of Aristotle (by way of his teacher, Albert the Great, and in conversation with Muslim and Jewish philosophers, who had been using Aristotle for centuries). Here’s my thumbnail sketch; it’s on my mind [...]

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