Rationalism and Catholicism

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Almost all arguments for the existence of God being offered by Catholics seems to come from the thomistic and aristotelian tradition. What about more rationalistic arguments? What systems of philosophy common in the catholic church offers a rational ground for belief based on rationalism, other arguments than the ontological one?
 
What’s rational to one person might be irrational to another, so in part your question is quite vague in terms of where you’re coming from on this.

Secondly, the Church even at its inception was influenced through Hellenization within eretz Israel, which is one of the reasons why the NT was written in Koine Greek. Greek was the language of scholars around the Mediterranean area, even though Koine Greek was more “casual”.

Within that approach, the use of “essence” is commonplace, whereas Plato’s and Aristotle’s philosophical approach is that something is beyond just a sum of its parts. Understanding this approach is really quite helpful in better understanding the Eucharist and the Trinity, for examples.
 
I fail to see how this is related to my question.
 
A wide variety of “schools of thought” are considered by the authors at Strange Notions.
 
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