Credo

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Publisher : Edizioni Studio Domenicano
ISBN 13 : 8870948285
Total Pages : 30 pages
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Book Synopsis Credo by : Tommaso d'Aquino (san)

Download or read book Credo written by Tommaso d'Aquino (san) and published by Edizioni Studio Domenicano. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Il Commento al Credo di san Tommaso d’Aquino è stato un vero best-seller del Medioevo, visto che a noi sono arrivati quasi 150 testimoni di manoscritti, cifra notevole. Eccelle per semplicità e sobrietà: non si perde in questioni oziose, non usa termini strani, ma illustra le verità fondamentali della fede in modo sintetico e con esempi e vocaboli efficaci, avendo a cuore l’intelligenza di chi vuole credere.«La prima cosa necessaria a ogni cristiano è la fede, senza di essa nessuno può dirsi fedele cristiano. La fede, inoltre, produce quattro beni. Il primo è unire l’uomo a Dio, perché mediante la fede l’anima contrae con Dio una specie di matrimonio, come è scritto in Osea: Ti farò mia sposa per sempre... ti fidanzerò con me nella fedeltà (Os2,21-22). Il secondo è introdurci alla vita eterna. La vita eterna, infatti, non è altro che conoscere Dio, come disse lo stesso Signore: Questa è la vita eterna: che conoscano Te, l’unico vero Dio (Gv 17,3). Questa conoscenza di Dio inizia ora per mezzo della fede, ma diventerà perfetta nella vita futura ... Il terzo bene è che la fede ci è guida nella vita presente. Infatti, perché l’uomo possa vivere rettamente è necessario che conosca le regole fondamentali della rettitudine. Ma se dovesse apprenderle tutte con lo studio, o non ci riuscirebbe mai o solo dopo molto tempo. La fede, invece, insegna tutto quello che è necessario sapere per vivere in modo buono ... E ciò trova conferma nel fatto che prima della venuta di Cristo nessun sapiente, nonostante tutti i suoi sforzi, riuscì mai a conoscere di Dio e delle cose necessarie per conseguire la vita eterna tanto quanto dopo la venuta di Cristo una semplice vecchierella sa mediante la fede. Perciò si dice in Isaia che la saggezza del Signore riempirà il paese (Is 11,9). Il quarto bene è che la fede è il mezzo per vincere le tentazioni ... Dice infatti san Pietro: Il vostro nemico, il diavolo, come leone ruggente va in giro, cercando chi divorare. Resistetegli saldi nella fede (1 Pt 5,8-9). ... Appare così evidente quanto sia utile la fede». Si tratta di un ottimo libro per introdurci all’Anno della fede. Il presente volume contiene l’opera di Tommaso d’Aquino, il cui titolo latino tradizionale è: Collationes (expositio) in Symbolum Apostolorum. La traduzione è stata condotta sul testo critico messo a punto da Nicholas Ayo nel 1988. Introduzione di Giorgio Maria Carbone O. P. Traduzione di Pietro Lippini O. P.

The End of Ancient Christianity

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521339490
Total Pages : 282 pages
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Book Synopsis The End of Ancient Christianity by : R. A. Markus

Download or read book The End of Ancient Christianity written by R. A. Markus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the nature of the changes that transformed the Christian world from the fourth to the end of the sixth century.

Resurrection of the Dead

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781519712561
Total Pages : 34 pages
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Book Synopsis Resurrection of the Dead by : Athenagoras

Download or read book Resurrection of the Dead written by Athenagoras and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-06 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athenagoras (circa 133 - 190) was a Father of the Church, a Proto-orthodox Christian apologist who lived during the second half of the 2nd century of whom little is known for certain, besides that he was Athenian (though possibly not originally from Athens), a philosopher, and a convert to Christianity. In his writings he styles himself as "Athenagoras, the Athenian, Philosopher, and Christian". There is some evidence that he was a Platonist before his conversion, but this is not certain. His writings bear witness to his erudition and culture, his power as a philosopher and rhetorician, his keen appreciation of the intellectual temper of his age, and his tact and delicacy in dealing with the powerful opponents of his religion. Thus his writings are credited by some later scholars as having had a more significant impact on their intended audience than the now better-known writings of his more polemical and religiously-grounded contemporaries. The treatise on the Resurrection of the Dead, the first complete exposition of the doctrine in Christian literature, was written later than the Apology, to which it may be considered as an appendix.

Ad Nationes, Book 2

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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1425016448
Total Pages : 98 pages
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Book Synopsis Ad Nationes, Book 2 by : Tertullian

Download or read book Ad Nationes, Book 2 written by Tertullian and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tertullian - Ad Nationes (Modern US English Translation)

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ISBN 13 : 9781516888238
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Book Synopsis Tertullian - Ad Nationes (Modern US English Translation) by : Quintus Tertullianus

Download or read book Tertullian - Ad Nationes (Modern US English Translation) written by Quintus Tertullianus and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ad Nationes (To the Nations) shows that the Roman actions taken against the early Christians are violations of justice. This is followed by a listing of Roman slanders against the Christians. Tertullian points out the hypocrisy, since Romans hardly conduct themselves in anything resembling moral behavior. The second book condemns and criticizes Roman religion and their deities in particular. "The hatred held by the heathen against the Christians is unjust, because based on culpable ignorance. One proof of that ignorance of yours, which condemns whilst it excuses your injustice, is at once apparent in the fact, that all who once shared in your ignorance and hatred (of the Christian religion), as soon as they have come to know it, leave off their hatred when they cease to be ignorant; nay more, they actually themselves become what they had hated, and take to hating what they had once been. Day after day, indeed, you groan over the increasing number of the Christians. Your constant cry is, that the state is beset (by us); that Christians are in your fields, in your camps, in your islands."-Tertullian 197 AD