Do We Interpret the Scriptures in Light of the Metaphysics of Form and Finality?

Aristotle's philosophy of form and finality and divine revelation given in scripture, coke here well on the question. There's a question of interpretive strategy: do we interpret scriptures in light of Aristotle or metaphysics? Thomas Aquinas writes that teachers of sacred doctrine can use it in a secondary role. What results is a unified wisdom proceeding from one in the same eternal truth," he says.