Session 3—St. Thomas Aquinas
Sunday, February 3, 9:30-11:00am
Facilitator: Jane Kelley Rodeheffer, PhD
St. Thomas Aquinas - The Theologian: The relationship
of faith and reason is under intense scrutiny in an age
beholden to the competing claims of fundamentalism
and secularism. So called “new atheists” insist that the
claims of religion amount to mere superstition, a retrograde
holdover from a time long ago. Other insist that
the life of faith is a retreat into emotions and subjectivism.
St. Thomas Aquinas anticipated these objections
and trends and demonstrated that to believe is to think
and that the life of the mind is integral to life in Christ.