HISTORY
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN EUROPE
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St. Francis
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Pope Gregory VII
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King Henry IV
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Thomas Aquinas
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why did Thomas Aquinas try to bridge the gap between reason and faith? He saw no conflict between faith and reason, because he believed that both were gifts from God. Reason, he believed, helped people discover important truths about God’s creation. Faith, meanwhile, revealed its own truths about God.
Detailed explanation-2: -“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”
Detailed explanation-3: -God. Aquinas believes that natural reason can demonstratively prove God’s existence. The first step is to show that, for everything in the changeable world around us, there is a first cause, or prime mover, in virtue of which all other things have their existence, their motion, their qualities and direction.
Detailed explanation-4: -John Paul II began the 13th of his 14 encyclical letters, Fides et Ratio (Faith and Reason) with a beautiful image of the importance of both faith and reason in humanity’s quest for truth.