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	<title>Ascent to Mount Carmel</title>
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		<title>An Augustinian Moment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Augustine famously threw up his hands as he wondered why God would wish to resurrect the body.  His Platonist metaphysics denigrated the body, making Augustine accept on faith rather than reason that the resurrection of the flesh is a good thing.
I&#8217;m having an Augustinian moment regarding prayer.  I know we are supposed to pray for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phamilton.wordpress.com&blog=840890&post=333&subd=phamilton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning Humility from Blogging</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been told that the human mind has an amazing capacity to forget painful experiences.  Maybe that is why I cannot remember writing some of the posts on my blog from two years ago.
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		<title>The Vincentian Canon and the Development of Doctrine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years I have heard many Anglicans and Orthodox criticize the Catholic Church for teaching innovative doctrines not taught by the early Church.  In particular they will cite St. Vincent of Lerin’s words in his Commonitory that “we hold that faith which has been believed everywhere, always, and by all.” (Commonitory chapter 2, paragraph 6)  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phamilton.wordpress.com&blog=840890&post=322&subd=phamilton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Love Your Enemies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christ commands us to love our enemies.  But if an enemy is someone that we hate or do not like, can we love those that we hate?  Clearly the answer is no.  Then what does Christ mean here?  I answer that &#8216;enemy&#8217; must be construed as a one-way relationship, not a two way relationship:  an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phamilton.wordpress.com&blog=840890&post=320&subd=phamilton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aristotelian Justification of the State</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A problem that has bugged me is how we justify judging the government by seemingly different moral standards than we judge individuals.  Why do we give the state the authority to kill people, take our money, etc under certain circumstances when we would never allow private citizens that authority?  How do we justify the existence [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phamilton.wordpress.com&blog=840890&post=318&subd=phamilton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does Pleasure Bring Happiness?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas categorically says that it does not.  But there is more to the story than this one article.  Consider the following:
&#8220;As is evident from what has been said above (Question 23, Article 4), pleasure is a kind of repose of the appetite in a suitable good; while sorrow arises from something unsuited to the appetite. Consequently in movements [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phamilton.wordpress.com&blog=840890&post=315&subd=phamilton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Suggestion for Spiritual Health</title>
		<link>http://phamilton.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/a-suggestion-for-spiritual-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back while watching one of the tennis Majors, the commentators explained what Venus Williams was reading in between games.  She had made a list of her tendencies as a tennis player; thus, when she made a lot of back hand errors she would look at her list to remind herself of the ways [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phamilton.wordpress.com&blog=840890&post=313&subd=phamilton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting Article on Catholic Marriage</title>
		<link>http://phamilton.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/interesting-article-on-catholic-marriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read an interesting article that claims that divorce among faithful Catholics is just as common as divorce among the general population.  While some may be shocked, I can&#8217;t say that I am.   Back when I first entered seminary, I naively thought that Catholic seminary was a place where the cream of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phamilton.wordpress.com&blog=840890&post=309&subd=phamilton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Suffering Man</title>
		<link>http://phamilton.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/the-suffering-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I discussed prayer with a group of high schoolers today.  It was a good discussion, but at one point I wished to bring up a point but deemed it too &#8220;advanced&#8221; to be discussed at that moment.  I wish to record it here.
I learned this semester that it is possible to make the very act [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phamilton.wordpress.com&blog=840890&post=307&subd=phamilton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Passing Thought</title>
		<link>http://phamilton.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/a-passing-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus told us to love our enemies and to pray for those who persecute us.  He forgave those who were persecuting him as he was dying on the cross.  But should we stop there?  As Christ was dying on the cross, he not only forgave his persecutors, but he also was offering expiation for their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phamilton.wordpress.com&blog=840890&post=304&subd=phamilton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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