[I]f some things were made by the Father, and some by the Son, then all things were not made by the Father, nor all things by the Son; but if all things were made by the Father, and all things by the Son, then the same things were made by the Father and by the Son. The Son, therefore, is equal with the Father, and the working of the Father and the Son is indivisible. Because if the Father made even the Son, whom certainly the Son Himself did not make, then all things were not made by the Son; but all things were made by the Son: therefore He Himself was not made, that with the Father He might make all things that were made.
Saint Augustine
De Trinitate
[S]ince it is established that his [God's] Word is consubstantial with him, and perfectly like him, it necessarily follows that all things that exist in him exist also, and in the same way, in his Word. Whatever has been created, then, whether alive or not alive, or howsoever it exists in itself, is very life and truth in him.
But, since knowing is the same to the supreme Spirit as conceiving or expressing, he must know all things that he knows in the same way in which he expresses or conceives of them. Therefore, just as all things are in his Word life and truth, so are they in his knowledge.
Saint Anselm
Monologium
[S]omething is called "holy" in two ways. In one way, simply and per se, such as that which is the subject of holiness, as a man is called holy. In another way, secondarily and in a certain respect, because it is ordered to this holiness, whether as having the power of sanctifying (as chrism is called holy), or being in any other way deputed to something holy (as an altar is holy). And so, those things by which something is made holy in the first way are called "sacraments" simply, whereas those by which something is made holy in the second way are not called sacraments, but rather "sacramentals."
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Scriptum sup. Sententiis
[W]omen reflect God not only as mothering, nurturing, and compassionate, although certainly that, but also as powerful, taking initiative, creating-redeeming-saving, wrathful against injustice, in solidarity with the poor, struggling against and sometimes victorious over the powers of this world. Reorienting the imagination at a basic level, these female images open up insight into the maternal passion, fierce protectiveness, zeal for justice, healing power, inclusive hospitality, liberating will, and nonhierarchical, all-pervading relationality that characterize divine love. In the process, they carry back to women the stamp of divine likeness.
Elizabeth A. Johnson
Quest for the Living God
(Chapter 5, "God acting womanish", p. 109)*
(Chapter 5, "God acting womanish", p. 109)*
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[* Book considered by U.S. Catholic Bishops as "inadequate" - these thundering words of condemnation have led Sr. Johnson to be honored by a "Progressive" periodical as "Person of the Year". Johnson remains a "Distinguished Professor of Theology" at Fordham University and is in full communion with the Holy See.]
