Brooks Robinson

Husband. Father. Catholic lay minister & theologian. Moral Theology. Systematic Theology. VFW. Tweets are my views only. RTs mean interest, not endorsement.

[Brooks Robinson @barob05]

@SteveSkojec but there needs to be a very narrow approach to the proportionality between civilian deaths & military objectives/targets.

[Brooks Robinson @barob05]

@SteveSkojec I think that’s the weakest points in general, yes. But this depends on other starting points. Eg the church has moved toward a strong presumption against war as well as accepting that the death of civilians is worse than the death of soldiers. Double effect isn’t done away with,

[Brooks Robinson @barob05]

@SteveSkojec In terms of certainty, yes/no. Intel is tricky because it isn’t “certain” per se. It’s interpretation of data & probability.

[Brooks Robinson @barob05]

@SteveSkojec Check out this video, "pope leo on just war" https://t.co/0SJ68USbrA

[Brooks Robinson @barob05]

@SteveSkojec I think he thinks it applies to a specific case: when one is actually invaded. I think the concern of Popes are in the nature of modern warfare (nukes, military tech & its effects, & global inter connectedness). Apparently there is an interest in further dialogue about this.

[Brooks Robinson @barob05]

Since that isn’t how Aquinas views this, all you’re doing is providing a good reason to reject Petrus van Maastricht.

[Eduardus Ekofius @EddyEkofo]

“Aquinas, without any shame, … disregarding the Scriptures, the heads of the faith began to be demonstrated by philosophical reasons, and even Aristotle, and others began to be considered equal to the Scriptures, if not preferred over them.”

—Petrus van Maastricht, TPT v1:85

[Brooks Robinson @barob05]

@jrmcmanaway Correct! Plus it emphasizes the specific mechanism of atonement that we really don’t, even if “penalty”, “punishment,” “curse” shows up in the atonement models we as Catholics gravitate towards.

[Brooks Robinson @barob05]

“Accretion” is probably the most unhelpful term in Catholic/Protestant debates.

[Brooks Robinson @barob05]

PSA is not Catholic, that is why you don’t see its presence.

[Erick Ybarra @ErickYbarra3]

I would say that many Catholics, especially in modern day academia, have rejected PSA. The root cause is hard to point out. It would not surprise me if liberalism, modernism, and the critical method are close neighbors to whatever *the* root cause is.

What is there to do? Continue to show Catholics from the sources that PSA has a place at the ecclesiastical table. And do so enough to where the wooden shield of “maybe PSA sounding language was employed but definitely not with a corresponding intention to actually mean that,” burns away from the fire of the clarity.

[Brooks Robinson @barob05]

@MaJack123 @ProtPhilosopher Also, he probably won’t accept earlier is better arguments elsewhere…

[Brooks Robinson @barob05]

I cannot stress enough that this is not the way to approach these sorts of questions.

[The Protestant Philosopher @ProtPhilosopher]

Catholics say their canon was just received, not added to. But the oldest Christian canon list, Melito (170 AD), tracks the Hebrew canon. No Tobit, Judith, Maccabees, Sirach appear in his list. The longer list appears only in the late 4th century. By their own rule, the accretion runs the other way.

[Brooks Robinson @barob05]

Well, since all of these reasons are bad reasons to not join the Catholic Church…I guess one should join the Catholic Church.

[𝔚𝔥𝔦𝔱𝔢𝔅𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔡 @HwsEleutheroi]

@GringoPapist https://t.co/Am33MSEPNy

[Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway]

A beautiful line from Ratzinger: God’s divinity is no longer revealed in his ability to punish but in the indestructibility and constancy of his love. (Daughter Zion, pp. 22-23).

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In the Eucharist, we find a visible manifestation of the reality that we are the Church of Christ, His members, His body. We are brothers and sisters in Him. And in Christ, though many and diverse, we are one: "In Illo uno unum". #CorpusChristi #MagnificaHumanitas

[Brooks Robinson @barob05]

In encountering unfamiliar material/embodied creatures…there should be a prima facie presumption that this creature is actually a material/embodied creature.

[Tyler McNabb (Tý)🇻🇦 @TylerDMcNabb]

You think aliens are demons.

I think they likely have an incarnation story, and if not, I’m ready to evangelize.

We are not the same.

[Tyler McNabb (Tý)🇻🇦 @TylerDMcNabb]

You think aliens are demons.

I think they likely have an incarnation story, and if not, I’m ready to evangelize.

We are not the same.

[Josh Hochschild @JoshHochschild]

Heard about a recently published article, lets say generally in the area of Thomism, filled with hallucinated quotations. Easy to identify for someone who knew the scholarly territory.
The journal editor, when offered clear documentation and some standard options for correcting the scholarly record, refused to address it.
I expect something will be published about this eventually, but it is bad enough that "scholars" are polluting the discourse with AI slop. Fabricated quotations in scholarship about the history of ideas are especially insidious. It's somewhat disturbing that the problem wasn't caught during peer review. But since the corrupt article was published, it is much more scandalous that an editor wouldn't take easy and reasonable steps to safeguard the integrity of a journal.

[Brooks Robinson @barob05]

@SteveSkojec 🤔

[Brooks Robinson @barob05]

@TylerDMcNabb Catholic universities have a lot of work to do!