Theology
1225 to 1274, Italy
The synthesis of faith and reason, and the five ways.
Start learning Thomas →Aquinas’s five arguments that the existence of God can be demonstrated by reason alone, working up from the ordinary facts of the world.
Aquinas’s great synthesis: that faith and reason, revelation and philosophy, come from the same God and so can never truly contradict each other.
Aquinas’s theory that there is a moral law written into human nature, discoverable by reason - the foundation of much of Western ethics and law.
How Aquinas solved the problem of how finite human language can say anything true about an infinite, utterly simple God - through the doctrine of analogy.
Aquinas’s answer to the hardest question in theology: how a good and all-powerful God can permit the evil and suffering that fill the world.
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