The Lives and Prayers of Catholic Saints: Volume II (Saint Augustine of Hippo and Saint Thomas Aquinas) by North Wyatt

Author:North, Wyatt [North, Wyatt]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
Published: 2013-01-11T16:00:00+00:00

Jews, Muslims, pagans, even heretics of various expressions, and certainly the Pope believed in God. Most would offer that it was not necessary to prove God’s existence. The revelations of Scripture and the immutability of Church doctrine were proof enough. Before Darwin, who maintained that by chance and natural selection the natural world evolved, most people accepted the existence of a grand Creator-designer of a magnificent natural design.

Aquinas had a religious experience, so for him, this “sense experience” data was sufficient proof. It is said that when he completed his Summa he appeared ill. His scribe asked what the matter was and Aquinas said that compared to what he had seen and experienced, everything else was straw. But the scientist in Aquinas (Note: To the medieval thinker, science was more than gaining knowledge through controlled observation and measurement of the material world as we think of science today. Like any good Aristotelian, scientia was any activity that involved reasoning from principles to conclusions) led him to his discourse.

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