To what end does man upon this earth sojourn, subject to toil in the company of thistle and thorn, futile in staving off the dust that hungrily anticipates his return? Impelled by an intrinsic restlessness he passes over the face of nature and her creatures, finding in them only a reflection of his own inevitable terminus and insatiable yearning. Dissatisfied, he turns inward, momentarily delighted to preoccupy himself with his seemingly unbounded intellection; he scrutinizes himself, only to confront that brutal nothingness by which he is distinguished from beasts and from which precipitates his demise. Pierced to the heart by a torment honed by reason, he cries out in anguish to a transcendent existence that must, of logical necessity, be. HE answers.
The Mystery of our End
- God as man’s ultimate end and knowing God and the trinity.
- Why it is proper to use reason and philosophy to read come to know God through scripture.
- How to treat scripture (de verbum) and the Hermetical method.
- God’s ontology from scripture. ie his attributes/predicates.
- Personhood, nature, substances, acidents, relationships, (thomistic metaphysics as huerminutic)
- Hints at multipersons in the Godhead.
- The Father.
- The Son.
- The Spirit.
- The logical syllogism describing the trinity.
- Thomistic explanation of the trinity and a discourse on analogies.
- Series of heresies.