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CC105: Bishop Robert Barron on Catholicism, Beauty, and Exorcisms (full interview)

Capturing Christianity Podcast

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The Thomistic Idea of God's Simpleness

The reformation came out of this distinction that happened sort of organically. I don't really have any developed thoughts on that. To be God is to be the sheer act of existence. That's the ground of an analogical conception of being. Now all creaturely forms of being from angels to insects would be participations in. They'd be reflections of the pure act of existence which is God. And so if I find glory even in my own moral works, that glorifies God. It doesn't take glory away from God.

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