Dogma, Science

Seven hundred years ago Thomas Aquinas built a system of dogma on the doctrine that Christianity is truth, that all philosophy which is true is Christian, and that all Christianity which is not true philosophy is not Christianity at all.

Aquinas did for the 13th century what Christian leaders attempt today—he unified Christianity and philosophy. But since his death philosophy has produced natural philosophy, natural philosophy has become science.

Pope Leo XIII, link between the 19th and 20th centuries, laid down the dogmatic system of Aquinas as the "...

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