medieval theology
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Aquinas’s Case for Apostolic Succession (and the Papacy)
In the fourth book of his Summa contra Gentiles (SCG), St. Thomas Aquinas considers the sacraments of the Church as extensions and instruments of Christ’s incarnation and redemptive acts. The sacraments are the means by which we participate in Christ’s incarnation, passion, death, resurrection: “Since . . . the death of Christ is as a universal…
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Translatio: St. Albertus Magnus, Summa Theologiae, Book I Prologue
Begins the first book on the mystery of the Trinity and Unity according to Brother Albert, professed of the Order of Preachers, once bishop of Ratisbon. “Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: it is high, and I cannot reach to it” [1]. In this authority six things are noted, in which the science of…
Disputed Questions 