Yet another wavelength in which supernature illuminates the natural realities is narrative: We learn more about natural law by thinking about the story.
Picking up the thread from Saturday’s post:
Mondays are reserved for letters from students.
Dear Professor Theophilus,
The first supernatural light upon nature is the light of precept: God commands or forbids something that the mind itself can recognize as right or wrong. Telling us what we already know or could have known may seem superfluous. Yet, as equatorial sunlight prickles the skin, so revelation prickles the mind and wakes it up, and it does this in several different ways.
Any Underground Thomists in the San Antonio area? I'm
giving the Mars Hill Lecture at 6:30pm TONIGHT (Thursday,
January 15) at the Geneva School of Boerne. The talk is free,
intended for a broad audience, and open to the public:
First Things 88 (1998)