Scripture as Foundation of Theology
The relationship between Sacred Scripture and Scholastic theology as inseparable disciplines: Scripture supplies the principles of faith from which theology draws conclusions, and the two must be joined as sisters. Take Scripture away from Scholastic theology and you produce not theology but philosophy.
Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture
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Chapter I: On the Excellence, Necessity, and Fruit of Sacred Scripture
— Theology is a science of conclusions drawn from principles certain by faith contained in Scripture; whoever separates them imagines a house without foundations.
"Theology is nothing other than a science of conclusions drawn from principles certain by faith, and therefore it is the most august of all sciences, as well as the most certain: but the principles of faith and faith itself are contained in Sacred Scripture"
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Chapter I: On the Excellence, Necessity, and Fruit of Sacred Scripture
— Dionysius the Areopagite everywhere professes himself to proceed supported by Sacred Scripture as by a principle and a brilliant torch.
"that divine Dionysius, whom all antiquity regarded as the summit of theologians and the "bird of heaven," who everywhere, when disputing about God and heavenly things, professes himself to proceed supported by Sacred Scripture as by a principle and a brilliant torch"
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Chapter II: On the Object and Breadth of Sacred Scripture
— Take Scripture away from Scholastic theology and you produce not theology but philosophy; join the two and you earn every mark of both theologian and philosopher.
"Take Sacred Scripture away from Scholastic theology, and you will produce not theology, but philosophy; you will be a philosopher, not a theologian. Join the two, intertwined with each other, and you will earn every mark of both theologian and philosopher"
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The Fathers' Defense of the Old Testament
— St. Thomas gave an illustrious example that scholastic theology and Scripture should be inseparably joined as sisters.
"St. Thomas, the prince of the Scholastics, gave us an illustrious example, that we should inseparably join Scholastic theology with Sacred Scripture, as though they were sisters"