The Vision of Fray Lauterio is an oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, from c. 1640. It is held in the Fitzwilliam Museum, in Cambridge...

The principle of double effect – also known as the rule of double effect, the doctrine of double effect, often abbreviated as DDE or PDE, double-effect...

Corpus Christi as part of a complete liturgy of the feast, including prayers for the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours. The strophe of "Sacris solemniis"...

The Summa contra Gentiles is one of the best-known treatises by Thomas Aquinas, written as four books between 1259 and 1265. Whereas the Summa Theologiæ...

concupiscence is the tendency of humans to sin. There are nine occurrences of concupiscence in the Douay-Rheims Bible and three occurrences in the King James...

the essence of an object, literally its "whatness" or "what it is". The term "quiddity" derives from the Latin word quidditas, which was used by the medieval...

achieved through the beatific vision, in which a person experiences perfect, unending happiness by seeing the essence of God. The vision occurs after death...

from the Peripatetic school of Greek philosophy, established by Aristotle in his Lyceum in ancient Athens. Aquinas argued that the existence of God could...

The cardinal virtues are four virtues of mind and character in both classical philosophy and Christian theology. They are prudence, justice, fortitude...

philosophy, Actus Purus (Latin for 'Pure Actuality' / 'Pure Act') is the absolute perfection of God. Created beings have potentiality that is not actuality, imperfections...

philosophical movement which promotes the interchange of ideas between the thought of Thomas Aquinas (including the philosophy carried on in relation to...

doctrine developed by the Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, which conceives every physical entity or being (ousia) as a compound of matter (potency) and...

The Vision of Saint Anthony of Padua is a 1656 oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, commissioned by the chapter of Seville Cathedral as...

Uses of Language, Eucharistic Identity, and the 'Baptist' Vision. Authentic Media. ISBN 9781842278666. James, Aaron B. (2014). Analogous Uses of Language...

earth; only at the beatific vision. Notably, man cannot attain true happiness without God. Regarding emotion (used synonymously with the word "passion"...

Aquinas' major work of legal philosophy. It forms questions 90–108 of the Prima Secundæ ("First [Part] of the Second [Part]") of the Summa Theologiæ, Aquinas'...

Constable, Murillo (The Vision of Fray Lauterio), and Renoir. It also has extensive works by J. M. W. Turner, which has its origins in a set of 25 watercolour...

reconcile the liberty or free will of humans with divine omniscience. In 1582 the Jesuit Prudencio Montemayor and Fray Luis de León spoke publicly about...

The just price is a theory of ethics in economics that attempts to set standards of fairness in transactions. With intellectual roots in ancient Greek...

the object of the vision and, at the same time, causes the vision. The perfection of the blessed also demands that the body be restored to the soul as something...

collection of questions that are discussed in the disputation style of medieval scholasticism. It covers a variety of topics centering on the true, the good...

the characteristic elements of Murillo’s work are already evident: the elegance and beauty of the female figures and the angels, the realism of the still-life...

of philosophy. He is known for being an early theorist in the field of semiotics. Born of noble parentage to a Spanish mother and a father likely of Belgian...

In classical theistic and monotheistic theology, the doctrine of divine simplicity says that God is simple (without parts). God exists as one unified...

the beatific vision. Here philosophy ends and theology begins. In the period from the publication of Aeterni Patris in 1879 until the 1920s, neo-scholasticism...

for the Roman Catholic Mass for the feast of Corpus Christi. It was written by St. Thomas Aquinas around 1264, at the request of Pope Urban IV for the new...

the basis for the doctrine of justification in the Roman Catholic Church and is rooted in the theology of Thomas Aquinas and Augustine of Hippo. The doctrine...

the feast of Corpus Christi (also known as the Solemnity of the Holy Body and Blood of Christ). The strophe of Sacris solemniis that begins with the words...

Martin Grabmann as distinguished theologians of the 20th century. As professor at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, he taught dogmatic and...

Adoration of the Shepherds is a c. 1668 oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, his second surviving work on that subject after a c.1650 version...