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Anselm Vs Aquinas

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No doubt the preceding notion was unwelcome to both Catholics and Protestants. For Catholics the source of knowledge is the divine revelation rather than human endeavor.
Although the "five ways" of proving the existence of God proposed by St. Thomas Aquinas are rational approaches, all five arguments are based on divine manifestation. Under Anselm 's premise that faith precedes reason, knowledge is a supernatural gift of grace and truth is all that God has revealed because he has revealed it. The role of our rational human mind is simply to accept the revelation rather than to explore the uncharted water. More importantly, the Catholic Church regards herself as the authority and guidance of truth. In the Catholic tradition, it is inconceivable
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