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I am curious about how the Eastern Catholic Churches view and interpret the Thomist idea that faith and reason tend toward the same conclusions, and the idea, prominent in Western theology, that logic and philosophy, and the more recently the scientific study of psychology, can be incorporated into, and can illuminate, theology? In his encyclical ‘Fides et Ratio’, Bl John Paul II tries to define a Catholic understanding of this relationship, and much of the encyclical is given over to the work of St Thomas Aquinas.
I know St Thomas is sometimes seen as a stumbling block to the Orthodox, because he is seen by some of them as trying to rationalise the mysteries of the faith. I wonder how the Eastern Catholic Churches view the relationship between faith and reason?
I know St Thomas is sometimes seen as a stumbling block to the Orthodox, because he is seen by some of them as trying to rationalise the mysteries of the faith. I wonder how the Eastern Catholic Churches view the relationship between faith and reason?