Sayings St. Thomas Aquinas ~ Theology and philosophy

 

  This science [theology] can in a sense depend upon the philosophical sciences, not as though it stood in need of them, but only in order to make its teaching clearer. For it accepts its principles not from other sciences; but immediately from God, by revelation. Therefore it does not depend upon other sciences as upon the higher, but makes use of them as of the lesser, and as handmaidens: even so the master sciences make use of the sciences that supply their materials, as political of military science. That it thus uses them is not due to its own defect or insufficiency, but to the defect of our intelligence, which is more easily led by what is known through natural reason (from which proceed the other sciences), to that which is above reason...

From St. Thomas Aquinas (Summa of the Summa, Ques. 1 Fifth Art., edited by Peter Kreeft; Ignatius Press pgs. 42-43):

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