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Do Faith and Reason Quarrel, or Join Hands?
Do knowledge probed by reason and knowledge received by faith collide, or run into one truth?
Grace does not abolish nature, but perfects it.
Aquinas's harmony was sparked when Aristotle re-entered the West through the Islamic world. As rational philosophy and revealed faith seemed to collide, some split them apart with the "double truth" — that philosophy's truth and faith's truth stand separately; Aquinas rejected this, seeking to bind them into one truth. But the synthesis did not last. Ockham divided the realms of faith and reason again, and in the modern age reason declared independence from faith. From Galileo's trial to the Darwin debate, the question of whether reason and faith are one or two caught fire again and again.
In an age eager to set reason and belief as enemies, Aquinas's question — whether the two can run into one truth — invites a second look at hasty opposition.
Aquinas did not set faith and reason as enemies.
📝I, Too, Stand Before It
Aquinas did not set faith and reason as enemies. Reason illumines as far as it reaches; where reason cannot reach, faith takes up, yet both finally point to one truth — as grace does not shatter nature but perfects it. I sense this question is the old problem of how to reconcile two sources of knowledge. There are things neither reason alone nor faith alone can hold. On the border between the two, I stand carefully too.
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