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Essay On Medieval God

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Medieval thinkers believe that once you allow God to help guide you through your life then you can live an overall better life. Philosophy in medieval times tend to synthesize itself with religion. Human beings are made in the image of God therefore they must echo their own nature with the divine. Rémi Brague and Thomas Aquinas both reflect the idea of creation, a by-product of God. In theology, it is believed God is omniscient and omnibenevolent, allowing him to manifest the universe and all the little details that lies within it. Theologians and philosophers in the medieval time always had to read other thinkers (non-western sources), due to the lack of physical access to ancient texts. Today we learn from western thought and medieval thought, both that is diverse from each other. Rémi Brague is a historian of medieval Christian, Jewish and Muslim thoughts. In the interview, we read in class we can see he makes a relation to the three religions in his book. Rémi believes “there is a vast gap between theology in …show more content…

There are other beings that can perceive more than us. Our minds are geared to a small chunk of reality, but not completely limited. Our intellect cannot connect to the reality of things, it’s too intelligible and our minds can only make out a handful of things. “The human reason is related to the knowledge of the truth of faith (a truth which can be most evident only to those who see the divine substance) in such a way that it can gather certain likeness of it.” (Page 76, Summa Contra Gentiles.) We need faith to have reason for the truth that we seek. We cannot work things out rationally and should trust reason is giving us truth. There are certain truths we can know by reason. It takes time to acquire certain principles. True wisdom is for the elite however; Aquinas says wisdom should be available to all. It’s not foolish to grasp the things beyond our reason. The divine wisdom is something we can all relate

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