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'''Gifts of Faith and Reason'''

* from St. Thomas Aquinas 

'''Two Wings of Truth'''

* from St. John Paul II's ''[https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_14091998_fides-et-ratio.html Fides et Ratio] (''"Faith and Reason")

== Saint Thomas Aquinas ==

* discussed "natural theology", or the notion of how we understand truth and God
* identified the primary tools to approach truth and God
** The Gift of Reason 
** The Gift of Faith
* which are Gifts of the Holy Spirit
see:

* [https://www.kofc.org/en/resources/cis/cis360.pdf The Gifts of the Holy Spirit According to St. Thomas Aquinas (kofc.org)]

== St. Pope John Paul II ==

* Called the "Gifts" the "Two Wings" of seeking truth and God:

 Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth—in a word, to know himself—so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves (cf. ''Ex'' 33:18; ''Ps'' 27:8-9; 63:2-3; ''Jn'' 14:8; ''1 Jn'' 3:2).
from [https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_14091998_fides-et-ratio.html Fides et Ratio]

== Reason ==

* God “can be known with certainty from the created world by the natural light of human reason“ (CCC 36)

* “limited human ways of knowing and thinking” (CCC 40)

== Faith ==

* Faith is a grace (CCC 153)

* “Faith seeks understanding” (CCC 158)

== Theology ==

* Theology, or the study of God (''theo'' + ''logy''), is called "Faith seeking Wisdom"

== Greece & Jerusalem: the sources of the Gifts ==

* Greece = homeland of philosophy and search of truth through reason
* Jerusalem = homeland of the search for God through faith


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