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Episode 1 – The Life and Sanctity of Thomas Aquinas | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.

Aquinas 101 - Course 1: Why Aquinas?

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The Three Uses of Reason in the Service of the Faith

If you ever want to read one book of aquinass on this whole issue of faith and reason. He has i nice treatise he wrote when he's about 30, called exposition on boetis de trinitate. The gifts of grace are added to nature in such a way that they do not destroy it, but rather perfect it. So too, the light of faith, which is impart to us as a gift, does not do away with the light of natural reason. We can make use of philosophy in sacred doctrine in three ways. First, by throwing light on the contents of faith by analogies. Second, by using many analogies drawn from philosophical doctrines to elucidate

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