Modernist theologians, historians, philosophers, and academics have done their best to confuse the faithful by feeding them a steady diet of ambiguity, straight-out lies, and nuanced contradictions.
The postconciliar church is not focused on worshiping God. It’s obsessed with the Cult of Man.
The sooner the faithful who attend the Novus Ordo realize that they are participating in the Cult of Man and not the one, true, Catholic Church, the better. Souls are at stake.
Pray for them.
It’s also time for those concerned with such things as souls to realize that faith is ultimately a matter of will.
St. Thomas Aquinas argued that the intellect is superior to the will, though they interact and influence one another.
Bl. John Duns Scotus disagreed, and this is why many traditional Catholics furrow their brows when his name is mentioned.
Now is the time for those Catholics who vilify Scotus as a harbinger of modernism to take another look. His thinking is what is needed in this time of crisis.
Many critics of Scotus, even most, haven’t read his work and rely on critics who haven’t either. Scotus can be difficult to understand. That’s why he is called Doctor Subtilis—the Subtle Doctor.
In short, Scotus argues that the intellect must necessarily affirm self-evident truths and therefore is not truly free.
For Scotus, since man is made in the image of God, he is free, and his freedom is located in the will.
Because the will is free, man must choose. It is fundamental to humanity. He can choose to accept or reject what the intellect presents, even if it is a self-evident truth.
The intellect affirms truth; the will chooses it.
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