137: Becoming God (Deification/Theosis), with Fr. James Brent O.P.
Pints With Aquinas
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You Are Engrossed in a Novel
When you're reading a novel, like you you go into the stor you become what you know. There's a great poem by wallace stevens where he talks about how the reader becomes the book. It's a beautiful experience, which is why it's so sad when i meet pople who don't read fiction. You can do the same thing with philosophy and theology. I now, aquinas was often absorbed in thought r such that he forgot what was going on around him. Like that famous story of him having dinner at the emperor's,. Was it, where he slammed his fist on the table and rans ra blurted out, that'll settle the manarchies
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