St. Augustine & St.Aquinas

St. Augustine argued that evil in this world was necessarily created by God.

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St. Augustine believed that faith illuminated reason.

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For St. Augustine, humans become miserable and unhappy because of ordered love.

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Summa Theologica is one of St. Aquinas’ most famous works where he wrote the Five Proofs of God’s Existence.

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Proof from order states that God exists because the universe is inherently rational.

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St. Augustine believed that divine illumination allows us to overcome the limits of the human mind and body to acquire knowledge.

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Aquinas and Augustine mainly used the same philosopher in showing the complementary relationship between faith and reason.

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In the first and second arguments for God’s existence, there must be a primary mover or a primary cause of a series of events because to assume otherwise would lead to an infinite regression which, for Aquinas, was absurd.

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Evil is a positive reality for St. Augustine.

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St. Aquinas is famous for his quotation, “My heart is restless until it rests in thee.”

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