Introduction The goal of this commentary is to follow the example of St. Thomas Aquinas who wrote commentaries on Aristotle. There is a dearth of Catholic commentary on Indian, especially Buddhist, philosophical treatises that have sought to create an authentic synthesis of what is true, good, and holy, in these texts. It also means commenting […]
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A little context: when I was working for the Diocese of Baton Rouge in Catechesis another peer and I were talking about prayer and I began to speak of meditation as a necessary step to, support for, and component of prayer. She was alarmed to even be speaking of meditation in the context of Christian
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I have a close friend that doesn’t believe in a god. He, like many of our contemporaries, thinks that to believe in God is to believe in a god. And so then it is more of a game of pick and choose. Evidentally most people do this based on culture and preference. They chose a
In How People Learn, by the National Research Council, two of the three key findings of the research are the importance of recognizing and working with pre-existing knowledge of learners as well as recognizing and fostering the role of metacognition in learning (Bransford, Brown, & Cocking, 2000). In my opinion, effective teaching not only addresses both
Theory is integral to human life and society and is the foundation of practice. This is nothing new. The question of the relationship between theōría (θεωρία) or epistēmē (ἐπιστήμη) and technê (τέχνη) or prāktikḗ (πρᾱκτῐκή) has occupied the western mind since the Ancient Greeks. Generally speaking, science as such arose out of a cultural context
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What made him a disciple was the trust God showed in him despite his many sins. Pope Francis Pope Francis recently created a video message to the Church of the Americas to recognize the American Jubilee, which is being celebrated in Bogota, Columbia, August 27-30th. In the quote above he is speaking of St. Paul, a self-proclaimed blasphemer,
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