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23 April 2022

St. Thomas Aquinas on Faith and Reason

Why Aquinas? - Episode II, with Fr Dominic Legge, OP, JD, STL, STD, Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology and Director of the Thomistic Institute.

“Unless thou hadst believed, thou wouldst not understand.” (Isaiah 7:9)

Is faith unreasonable? Is it contrary to reason, or in tension with it? St. Thomas Aquinas holds that God, being the ultimate source of reality, is therefore the source of reason and of Divine Revelation. As both faith and reason come from God, and Truth is one, we can be confident that faith and reason will never truly contradict each other. Truth cannot contradict truth.

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