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The President, shock and awe, and Tertullian

March 3, 2009 - 6:26 am - by Roger Kimball
Thomas
2009-03-03 10:32:22

Was the Sacred Schadenfreude doctrine Tertullian’s, and was it really condemned as heresy? I seem to recall St. Thomas Aquinas making the same point, and he seems to be in pretty good standing with the RCC.