Theology

Theology is the highest part of philosophy: knowledge of divine things reached through dialectic.

Theology is first philosophy: the science of being qua being culminates in the study of the unmoved mover.

Faith seeks understanding: reason serves theology, but revelation provides what reason alone cannot reach.

Natural theology proves God by reason; sacred theology, grounded in revelation, is a true science whose principles come from God's own knowledge.

Natural theology is vanity: human reason is too weak to reach God, and faith alone suffices.

Natural theology can prove that God exists, but it cannot tell us what God wills; for that, we need revelation.

God's existence can be demonstrated with mathematical certainty from the idea of a supremely perfect being.

Natural theology is an illusion: no argument from reason or experience can establish the nature of God.

Speculative theology is impossible: reason cannot prove God, but morality demands that we postulate God's existence.