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I just wrote a 259 word footnote on Francisco Suárez's three kinds of distinctions: (1) real, (2) modal, and (3) rational, illustrating the two species of the latter (distinctions of "reasoning reason" vs. distinctions of "reasoned reason"). I deserve an ice cream cone.

A thought experiment: If *beauty* is goodness in its intelligibility--the radiance of goodness, then *glory* is power in its intelligibility--the radiance of power. "Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and joy are in his place."--1 Chronicles 16:27

I know scholastic distinctions make you angry, but you could really be helped by the distinction between internal operations concerning internal objects and internal operations concerning external objects.

Guys, you should really read Romans. It's great. But caveat lector: You'll become Protestant, bigly.

“God brings things into being neither by necessity of his nature [contra Spinoza], nor by necessity of his knowledge [contra Leibniz], nor by necessity of his will [contra Schleiermacher], nor by necessity of his justice [also Leibniz]” (Thomas Aquinas, SCG, 2.28).

"What shall I render to the LORD for all his benefits to me? I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD, I will pay my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people."--Psalm 116:12-14

Psalm 97 is Romans in nuce. Romans is Psalm 97 writ large.

You should be Preston-maxxing &cetera