Sentence Examples

  • Vvvriprtats, from QuvTr)pEiv, to look after, take care of), but synderesis is the commoner form.
  • The term synderesis, however, is not found till Jerome, who in dealing with Ezek.
  • Here apparently synderesis and conscience (o vv€LSrtacs) are equivalent.
  • By the schoolmen, however, the terms were differentiated, conscience being the practical envisaging of good and evil actions; synderesis being, so to speak, the tendency toward good in thought and action.
  • The exact relation between the two was, however, a matter of controversy, Aquinas and Duns Scotus holding that both are practical reason, while Bonaventura narrows synderesis to the volitional tendency to good actions.
 
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