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Pope Benedict on Aquinas and Bonaventure

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A letter from Pope Benedict on Aquinas and Bonaventure On 17 March 2010 Pope Benedict issued the following letter entitled: “Theology according to Aquinas and Bonaventure: Different Accents in an Essentially Shared Vision.” I thought I’d like to share it because the juxtaposition of Aquinas and Bonaventure nicely brings to a head the controversy over whether […]

Bruce Marshall on theology and philosophy

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Bruce Marshall on theology’s use of philosophy In his quaestiones on Boethius’s De Trinitate Aquinas asks, as he does on several occasions, whether “philosophical arguments and authorities” can be used in theology – “faith’s science about God.” One of the objectors observes that in scripture the wisdom of the world is often represented by water, […]