(November 17, 2016 at 6:53 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Nope, they wouldn't, [1] and your statements are false by reference to themselves. Jesuits aren't thomists (something they've been getting shit for, for centuries). [2] They think that a full human life can be lived by nothing other than good work. [3] After all....to do good work is to do gods work. Agreed? [4]
1) I am currently being educated by Jesuits, and they taught me this exact thing. I don't know what to tell you.
2) I know several of Jesuits personally, and many of them are also Thomists. Two of the most influential renaissance Jesuits, Louis de Molina (joined the order while Ignatius was still living) and Francisco Suarez (who joined about a decade later), were both Thomists. They have had Thomists since the beginning. One of the two contributors to the "24 Theses of Thomas" was a Jesuit Thomist. They have been getting shit for centuries OVER Thomas, about whose teachings they had deep disagreements with the Dominicans (beginning with Molina's "new" interpretation). You don't need to be a Thomist to be a Jesuit, but to make a sweeping statement like "Jesuits aren't Thomists" is just not true. The Jesuits who taught you were probably not Thomists, and that's fine.
3) No. Not all Jesuits think this.
4) Yes, doing good work is doing god's work. And doing good work because its god's work is better.
