The significance of that 'absolute commandment', know thyself — whether we look at it in itself or under the historical circumstances of its first ut… - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially

Very similar were the views expressed by Raymundus of Sabunde or Sabeyde, a Spaniard of the fifteenth century, and professor at Toulouse about the year 1437. In his theologia natural is, which he handled in a speculative spirit, he dealt with the Nature of things, and with the revelation of God in Nature and in the history of the God-man. He sought to prove to unbelievers the Being, the trinity, the incarnation, the life, and the revelation of God in Nature, and in the history of the God-man, basing his arguments on Reason. From the contemplation of Nature he rises to God; and in the same way he reaches morality from; observation of man's inner nature. This purer and simpler style must be set off against the other, if we are to do justice to the Scholastic theologians in their turn.

Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.