Sentences with phrase «john damascene»

How many of our people, indeed how many of us in the ordained ministry, really understand that prayer is essentially what St. Thomas Aquinas, following St. John Damascene, said it is: «the elevation of the mind to God»?

[27] John Damascene or of Damascus (657 - 749) monk and theologian, 2 On the Virtues and the Vices, (in The Philokalia).

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These would be the right wing Tories like... John Major, Michael Heseltine, Michael Portillo, and that damascene convert to centrism Michael Howard?