Two Wings of Truth: gifts of faith and reason

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Gifts of Faith and Reason

  • from St. Thomas Aquinas

Two Wings of Truth

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
  • he also affirmed the role of the Holy Spirit

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).

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)
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