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Periodization divides church history into periods marked by some kind of coherence, periods opened and closed by epoch-changing events. Periodization helps us structure history so that we can better understand what is distinctive of a
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“Not only powers of intentional action, the power of intentional action is self-predicated. She who acts intentionally knows herself to have this power. The self-predication I am an intentional agent underlies and is contained in any dynamic self-predication I am doing A. Indeed, this self- predication is none other than the consciousness expressed by the word I in I am doing A. Once one recognizes this, it becomes much easier to read German Idealism.”
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“A capacity as such is directed to an act. Wherefore we seek to know the nature of a capacity from the act to which it is directed, and consequently the nature of a capacity is diversified as the nature of the act is diversified.”
― Summa Theologiae
― Summa Theologiae
“What we have to realize instead is that possession of a rational capacity, whichever capacity it is, is to be explained through acts that already manifest the capacity in question, yet in a particular manner: namely, in a manner that is mediated through and dependent on the exemplary acts of another subject.”
― Sources of Knowledge: On the Concept of a Rational Capacity for Knowledge
― Sources of Knowledge: On the Concept of a Rational Capacity for Knowledge
“Every kind of integralism, open or disguised, is contrary in principle to true catholicity, which can win to itself and comprise all things only if it delivers itself up and dies like the seed to rise again.”
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“But what is Pacem in Terris’s most important contribution in the context of the genesis of Gaudium et Spesis its repeated recourse to‘the signs of the times’ as measures and tools with which to comprehend the reality of a constantly changing world. The innovation of this approach lies in its implied recommendation to study in all seriousness contemporary reality and society in order to determine in which way the values of the Gospel have materialized in today’s world. Rather than relying on pre-established and traditional doctrine to judge present-day reality, Catholic believers are enjoined to place trust in investigatory methods that could be described as sociological, historical, and anthropological, before making value judgements on the phenomena of today’s world”
― The Spirit of Vatican II: Western European Progressive Catholicism in the Long Sixties
― The Spirit of Vatican II: Western European Progressive Catholicism in the Long Sixties
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