Davide's Notes

I wish to thank AKMA for his reminder to "work out our theologies concerning death". Somehow the reminder resonated; I'm now reading some Notes on the Tertia pars of the Summa Theologiae by Richard Schenk OP. Very interesting.

These readings, as usual, spark a number of ideas. This is a part of lecture one that I should remember to explore also in my Church History studies:

[The author speaks about] the value of the history of the reception of an idea for evaluating the idea itself. If you want to find out what a thinker chiefly thought, it is best to start with what was new about his thought. If you want to find out what was new about his thought, you should look for places where he states or at least reveals that he has changed his mind or where others state that this thought is new, perhaps even new and shocking. What is new need not be true, but it will usually be intended by the author.

Good food for thought.