Thomas Aquinas · Theology

Faith and Reason

Aquinas’s great synthesis: that faith and reason, revelation and philosophy, come from the same God and so can never truly contradict each other.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Aquinas held faith and reason cannot truly conflict. Explain why, and how he divided truths of reason from truths of faith, in your own words.

Leads to William of Ockham.

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