Five Reasons the Cross was the Most Suitable Way for Our Redemption


	Five Reasons the Cross was the Most Suitable Way for Our Redemption

Efrain Alvarado

3-24-2008 3:20 AM

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st. thomas aquinas, christ, passion, jesus, easter, scripture, summa theologica

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3-26-2008 6:47 PM

newmo

He's a great summariser (oops not a pun honest)

I heard that his definition of life was "self-movement" - nothing else just that! Something so comprehensive and vast defined so simply. And its a good definition - a plant grows propelled by something within. A rock withers under external forces. A plant is alive and a rock isn't. Great!

3-27-2008 12:47 AM

Efrain Alvarado

St. Boethius (circa 6 AD), "a person is an individual substance of a rational nature."

This might be interesting to you: http://www.newadvent.org/summa/1029.htm

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