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To: Mad Dawg
"Aquinas offers that faith is assent of the intellect directed by will to something one does not know."

Directed by whose will? A determinist would claim it's the particular physical arrangement of the individual's rational machinery that provided the apparent function of will. The Calvinist would claim it was god's will. A person who believes in free will would claim that the will must be the individual's will. Will though is a rather imprecise, arbitrary and thus useless term, when describing how decisions and actions are caused.

34 posted on 06/18/2012 2:44:18 PM PDT by spunkets
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To: spunkets

I’ll complain about your complaint (!) about “will” because he goes into what will- is elsewhere — at length, believe me.

I think he means the believer’s will. But he would say that faith in Christ is impossible w/o grace. Faith is a “theological virtue’ in his scheme, and they’re impossible w/o grace.


35 posted on 06/18/2012 5:07:28 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Depone serpentem et ab veneno gradere.)
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