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The Johnson Case and the Practice of Theology: An Interim Report – III
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1 Rocca, Gregory P., Speaking the Incomprehensible God: Thomas Aquinas on the Interplay of Positive and Negative Theology (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2004), xiGoogle Scholar.
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10 Ibid., 149; see pages 135–53 for Rocca's documentation of this development in Aquinas' thinking and formulation.
11 Ibid., 150 citing Sententia super Metaphysicam 7.41337 (Rocca's italics).
12 Ibid., 151.
13 Ibid., 152.
14 Ibid., 151.
15 Ibid., (Rocca's italics).
16 Ibid., 153.
17 Ibid.
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30 Ibid., 46.
31 Ibid., 121.
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34 Ibid., 25, 134, 270–74.
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38 Figures 5 and 6 are based on http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/courses/m308-02b/projects/franco/index.htm.
39 Calculations from http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html.
40 October 2011, “Response,” 2–3 at the USCCB Website (http://www.usccb.org/about/doctrine/publications).
41 Statement, 7.
42 Ibid., 8.
43 Ibid., 8, citing Quest, 19.
44 Ibid., 8.
45 Quest, 18.
46 Ibid., 19.
47 Ibid.
48 The opposite of “cracks open” at page 3 in “Response” confirms that different meanings of “literal” are being confused.
49 Ibid., 18.
50 Statement, 12.
51 Quest, 20.
52 Statement, 4.
53 Ibid., 20.