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AI Overview Learn more … Opens in new tab Étienne Gilson, a prominent Catholic philosopher, argued that "God is not a substance" because  he believed that attempting to define God using the category of "substance" as understood in philosophy, which implies a distinct essence separate from existence, falls short of capturing the true nature of God, who is considered to be pure act and where essence and existence are completely unified .   Key points about Gilson's stance: Distinction between essence and existence: In traditional philosophy, a "substance" has a distinct essence that makes it what it is, separate from its mere existence. Gilson argues that this distinction does not apply to God, as God's essence is identical to his being. God as pure act: Gilson emphasizes that God is not a potential being that becomes something, but rather pure act, meaning his existence is not derived from anything else and is completely self-sufficient.   Is God a ...

https://carework.co.in/christianorder/features/feature-june-july-2004-b/ June/July 2004 To Belie The Obvious Truth JAMES LARSON “It has never been asserted that, so to say, nature in a physical sense is being changed . The transformation reaches down to a more profound level. Tradition has it that this is a metaphysical process. Christ lays hold upon what is, from a purely physical viewpoint, bread and wine, in its inmost being, so that it is changed from within and  Christ truly gives himself  in them. “ [Cardinal Ratzinger,  God and the World, Believing and Living in Our Time,  p.408 – all emphases in my quotes from Cardinal Ratzinger’s writings are mine] Evasion and misrepresentation In his foregoing 4,634 word “refutation” of my articles concerning the heresies contained in the writings of Cardinal Ratzinger, Michael Davies does not even once attempt to refute my arguments by confronting and attempting to put into an orthodox context the numerous  clearly...

https://www.ldolphin.org/geocentricity/Hertz.pdf Not that modern science requires hard evidence to reach conclusions, because it scorns them. Rapidly succeeding theories provide all the momentum needed to propel it forward. Back in 1887 the Catholic biologist Antoine Béchamp (rival of Pasteur and probably the real discoverer of DNA) complained,  We are always making assumptions, and from assumption to assumption, we end by concluding without proof.  Leaping from one working hypothesis to the next, science today is not concerned with objective truth as such. If the relative proves serviceable, who needs absolutes? Whatever works for the time being is true for the time being, and what other time is there? Once up and down were reduced to a manner of speaking, everything else became relative. In the twentieth century this gigantic heresy would be formulated into dogma as the Theory of Relativity by Albert Einstein, one of the great heresiarchs of the natural order in the line of ...

St. Ferdinand III Three Act Play about  King St. Fernando III By Fred Martinez The boy Fernando's eyes shined as he listened to the warrior Archbishop tell what happened that day when his grandfather King Alfonso saved Spain from total destruction. Archbishop:  Remember what your grandfather faced, the Moors trophy beheadings and crucifixions were continual. They cut off the knights head dead or alive and send them to the theirs principle towns of the Muslim empire. Sometimes the skulls and corpses were to huge piles of bloody mass as if it were a "height of mimaret" for a call for horrible macabre Islamic prayer. With this in mind, what you grandfather with his small Christian army proposed to do was courageous sheer madness when he readied to charge down into a Muslim combined army of over a hundred thousand as his troops seemed ready to crumble. With the battle seemingly almost lost, your grandfather shouted, "Archbishop, let you and me die here!" I roared ba...