![]() The postmodernists have rejected any universal reason. Knowingly or unknowingly, they reject reason following the influence of postmodern philosophers’ social-linguistic constructs (e.g., “non-binary”) and want others to accept their nominal cultural war views and words as normative because of their reason. Today, postmodernists emphasize individual will when making choices and place their will before memory (observations), understanding, and God’s will. Scripture is replete with references to this desire, e.g., “My heart has said of you, ‘Seek his face’” (Psa 27:8). Our temporal desires are never completely fulfilled, but our eternal desire is to be one with God into eternity. Any discerning Christian uses his observations, faith, and reason to know his deepest desire and to know the guidance that comes from the Holy Spirit to fulfill that desire. God’s desire is our deepest desire: love. The foundational point is to use our powers of discernment to know God’s will because God’s will is true, good, beautiful, and provides a real home. Men and women who have prayed with the Spiritual Exercises know that Ignatius ends the retreat with these three powers as part of the Suscipe:Įverything is yours do with it what you will. Aquinas followed Augustine but described the triplets as powers. Augustine looked for the presence of the Holy Trinity in our person and proposed memory, understanding, and will as one example. Thomas Aquinas who knew them from Augustine’s De Trinitatae. Ignatius of Loyola speaks of the “three powers of the soul”: memory, understanding, and will. In the First Exercise of the Spiritual Exercises (paras. The powers of the soul the will of God or individual will?
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