Specifically Christian Sins: Thomas Aquinas on Malitia, Acedia, and the Sins against the Holy Spirit
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November 15, 2016 • Dr. Colleen McCluskey, Associate Professor of Philosophy (Ph.D., Iowa University) at Saint Louis University. Does human creativity complete a world that God left unfinished? Or do our activities of making, building, and inventing mar the goodness of creation? Thomas Aquinas helps answer these questions by reflecting on Divine creativity and its image in the human being.
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