In his commentary on the Sentences, Thomas says that “The science [of theology] develops from these first principles [of faith] and also includes the universal [natural] principles. It possesses no means to prove them, but only to defend them against detractors.”
It’s the comparison that’s arresting: “Just as no artist can prove the axioms of his art.”
Thomas, the aesthetic theologian.
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