Thomas More as Theologian in his Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation

Moreana ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (Number 199- (1-2) ◽  
pp. 11-43
Author(s):  
John F. Boyle
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Structure ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Theological Virtues

This paper argues for the fundamentally theological character of Thomas More’s Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation. An understanding of theology based on Thomas Aquinas is used to bring out important elements of the conceptual structure of the work through the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity.

‘Counsel, Comfort, and Conscience’ in More’s Letters to Fellow Prisoner Nicholas Wilson

Moreana ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (Number 176) (1) ◽  
pp. 49-64
Author(s):  
John F. Boyle
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Summa Theologiae ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Tower Of London

This is a study of the two letters of Thomas More to Nicholas Wilson writ-ten while the two men were imprisoned in the Tower of London. The Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation illuminates the role of comfort and counsel in the two letters. An article of Thomas Aquinas’ Summa theologiae is used to probe More’s understanding of conscience in the letters.

scholarly journals Glottodydaktyka i językoznawstwo – razem czy osobno?

Neofilolog ◽  
1970 ◽  
pp. 59-66
Author(s):  
Dorota Śliwa
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Conceptual Structure ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Communicative Functions

The article concerns the relation between linguistics and glottodidactics. In the first part, we present a synthesis of problems found when these two disciplines confront each other. The reply to the question about the identity of linguistics is the concept of a sign as a cluster of relations (cognitive, pragmatic, communicative, etc.) developed by Krąpiec in the sense proposed by Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas. Key also is the concept of a subjective and predicative structure as a tool to describe the conceptual structure. The cluster of relations mentioned before undergoes syntactic transformations in the text. This proposition considers both cognitive and communicative functions of a language and takes a positive stance on the experiences of foreign language didactics.

Proposals for Social Pedagogy and the Best Political Practices From the Crown of Aragon

2021 ◽  
pp. 57-71
Author(s):  
Rosabel Roig-Vila ◽  
Gladys Merma-Molina ◽  
Diego Gavilán-Martín
Keyword(s):  
Saint Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Niccolo Machiavelli ◽  
Analytical Line ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Crown Of Aragon ◽  
Niccolò Machiavelli ◽  
Social Pedagogy ◽  
Ramon Llull

The authors analyze the figure of the Franciscan Francesc Eiximenis, and especially his Regiment de la cosa pública, from a reflection on medieval pedagogy and politics. Likewise, they establish meeting points between the thought, the words and the pedagogy of Eiximenis and those of other authors. So, the chapter draws a chronological-analytical line between him and other relevant figures of the 13th through the 16th centuries, such as Saint Thomas Aquinas, Beatus Ramon Llull, Niccolò Machiavelli, (Saint) Thomas More, Saint Vincent Ferrer, and Joan Lluis Vives.

Thomas Aquinas, Thomas More and the Vindication of Humor as a Virtue: Eutrapelia and Iucunditas

Moreana ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (Number 199- (1-2) ◽  
pp. 95-107
Author(s):  
Carlo De Marchi
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Explicit Reference

In the Dialogue of Comfort (II, 1: 82/17-21), Antony and Vincent discuss “Whether a man may not in tribulation use some worldly recreation for his comfort,” and make an explicit reference to the auctoritas of St. Thomas Aquinas. The paper investigates the Thomistic foundation of the virtue of recreation, which is presented as a key aspect of More’s spirituality and theological outlook. Some theological sources for this study can be found in José Morales, Cornelio Fabro, Hugo Rahner and Louis Bouyer.

scholarly journals ARISTOTLE AND THOMAS AQUINAS: TWO ACCOUNTS OF THE VIRTUES

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 311
Author(s):  
Frans Ceunfin
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Theological Virtues

Pada umumnya boleh dikatakan, ada dua perspektif dalam memahami etika, cabang filsafat yang merefleksikan tentang tingkah laku manusia. Perspektif pertama memberi penekanan pada kualitas hidup atau watak pelaku, sedangkan yang kedua lebih memberi perhatian pada norma-norma bertingkah laku. Pertanyaan penting bagi perspektif pertama adalah ‘Manusia macam apa aku harus menjadi?’, sementara bagi yang kedua, ‘Apa saja norma-norma yang harus kuturuti agar tindakanku baik secara moral?’. Bila kualitas hidup moral pelaku dijadikan sebagai pusat refleksi kita berkutat dengan etika keutamaan (aretaic ethics atau virtue ethics), dengan pendukung dan pembela utamanya adalah Aristoteles and Thomas Aquinas, sementara etika yang bertumpu pada normanorma dikenal sebagai etika kewajiban (deontic ethics atau the ethic of duty) dibela terutama oleh Immanuel Kant. Tulisan ini akan membahas pandangan Aristoteles dan Thomas Aquinas tentang keutamaan. <b>Kata-kata Kunci:</b> Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Thomistic synthesis of the Aristotelian philosophy and the Augustinian theology, habits, human virtues and theological virtues.

The Use of St. John Chrysostom in Sixteenth-Century Controversy: Christopher St. German and Sir Thomas More in 1533

1961 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Schoeck
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Canon Law ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
John Chrysostom ◽  
Apparent Source ◽  
Sir Thomas More ◽  
The Common ◽  
Technical Question

In the important controversy between Sir Thomas More and Christopher St. German during the year 1533 — a controversy whose importance reaches into theological domains and involves also the vexatious conflict between the common law and the Roman canon law in England — we find a citation of St. John Chrysostom used first by St. German and then accepted and repeated by More. The apparent source is Chrysostom's famous commentary on St. Matthew, and this work (translated by Burgundio of Pisa in the later twelfth century) is, as Miss Smalley reminds us, the book “which St. Thomas Aquinas preferred to the whole town of Paris….” Further involved, of course, is the larger problem of the influence of St. John Chrysostom before and during the sixteenth century, as well as the technical question of methods of using commentaries on Scripture and thus the weight of auctoritas among the early Tudor controversialists. While it is only the modest story of one maxim that I wish to call attention to in this brief paper, I think that we shall in addition learn something of the English fortunes of one of the most widely used medieval compendia of commentaries, the Catena Aurea of St. Thomas Aquinas.

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