FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Both believed that reason was unrelated to faith.
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Both believed in the joint power of the Church and the State.
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Both believed that only faith was an important part of the Christian worldview.
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Both believed that reason and faith were part of the quest for truth.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the wider context of his philosophy, Aquinas held that human reason, without supernatural aid, can establish the existence of God and the immortality of the soul; for those who cannot or do not engage in such strenuous intellectual activity, however, these matters are also revealed and can be known by faith.
Detailed explanation-2: -In Dante’s Inferno the unique relationship of grace and nature is made apparent and reflects the writings of Aquinas’ “Summa Theologica”. Dante’s pilgrimage through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise exhibit and reflect St. Thomas’ understanding of the relationship of nature and grace.
Detailed explanation-3: -They also meet seven popes. Abelard, Aquinas and Dante helped to construct a world view which placed reason and faith at the center of man’s quest for truth. That truth was God and God’s will. However, over the course of the next several centuries, reason and faith would be slowly drawn apart.
Detailed explanation-4: -Faith is the belief in the truth of something that does not require any evidence and may not be provable by any empirical or rational means. Reason is the faculty of the mind through which we can logically come to rational conclusions. Faith and reason are both sources of authority upon which beliefs can rest.