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Pieper on Sin: Contra Naturam, Contra Rationem
1 Comment Published by Cynthia R. Nielsen April 29th, 2006 in Recent/Contemporary Catholic Thinkers/Movements, TheologyJoseph Pieper, discussing the irrationality of sin writes:
“Sin is something contrary to reason, an actus contra rationem, a kind of ‘craziness.’ Yet despite that, sin is no something diseased, certainly not a ‘disease’ in the ordinary sense of what people mean by that word: something that simply comes upon a person without any choice in [...]
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