St Thomas Aquinas Intimidates me

Well his writing does. :) I have tried to follow the debates between Catholics and Eastern Orthodox recently on the net.

In one corner there is massive Catholic St Thomas Aquinas wearing white trunks weighing in at 250 ibs and in the other corner in the black trunks is the Southpaw Eastern Orthodox St Gregory Palamas.

Watch them fight it out over catholic Dogma Absolute Divine simplicty versus the Eastern Orthodox belief of Divine Essence and Energies. I might write a post on that. Again I suspect that the two viewpoints can and should be reconciled. Of course I am still at the point that I am not sure if there is a real problem.

St Thomas writings come up a lot of course in that debate. I think my problem is grasping the basic terms and concepts I guess his readers understood. My high school education did not prepare me for that nor my marketing or other degrees

Still I need too try

The Bob Catholic Show has some good resources on him here and he is encouraging us like John Paul the II said to BE NOT AFRAID.