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Theology as a Science: Aquinas on How ...

How did theology become systematic? What is the history of the literal interpretation of Scripture? Thanks to the adoption of Aristotelian scientific methods, learned from his philosophical methodology, theologians transformed the allegorical and mystical interpretation of Scripture into literal interpretation.

See how Peter Lombard, Albert the Great, and Aquinas transformed theology into the systematic theology we have today.

Theology as a Science: Aquinas on How Philosophy Transforms Theology
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"Aristotelianism" in Four Views on Christian ...

What is the relationship between the body and soul? What is reality? Church history has long used Aristotelian tools to answer these questions in theology, and I defend Aristotelian metaphysics in Four Views on Christian Metaphysics.

Four Views on Christian Metaphysics presents four prominent views held among Christians today on the major questions in philosophical metaphysics. What is the nature of existence itself? What is it for something to exist? What are universals? What is the soul? How do these things relate to God, in light of special and general revelation? The four Christian perspectives presented in this book are: Platonism, Aristotelianism, idealism, and postmodernism. The purpose of this book is to help Christians think deeply and carefully about a Christian view of the ultimate nature of reality and our place in it.

"Aristotelianism" in Four Views on Christian Metaphysics

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Proving God from Perfection

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Proving God from Perfection

Can God be proven? Yes. Denying the provability of God is popular today, even for Christians. Faith and reason have been divorced, and we Christians sometimes swallow that pill without realizing it. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Faith seeks understanding, but it is built on it too. We believe in God for good reason or else we have no reason to believe in God.

Thomas Aquinas gives a series of five ways of proving the existence of God. The fourth way is taken from our idea of perfection.