The Seraphic Doctor, St. Bonaventure
Pope Benedict's doctoral thesis was on St. Bonaventure, one of the greatest Catholic thinkers of all time. Here's an excerpt on the saint's theology of Revelation.
"The seraphic doctor would have it that all human knowledge is profoundly religious. He admits the role of the senses and of the intellect in the process of knowing. He recognises their necessity and their value, but he considers that intellect and sense are by themselves insufficient if we are to know with a knowledge that is absolutely sure, perfect and certain. That is why he strengthens their value by this ray of divine light which burns in our mind and which comes to us from Christ the Word, the God-man."
(Source: The Triumph of the Catholic Intelligence: St. Bonventure, St. Albert the Great, St. Thomas Aquinas by Philip Hughes)
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"The seraphic doctor would have it that all human knowledge is profoundly religious. He admits the role of the senses and of the intellect in the process of knowing. He recognises their necessity and their value, but he considers that intellect and sense are by themselves insufficient if we are to know with a knowledge that is absolutely sure, perfect and certain. That is why he strengthens their value by this ray of divine light which burns in our mind and which comes to us from Christ the Word, the God-man."
(Source: The Triumph of the Catholic Intelligence: St. Bonventure, St. Albert the Great, St. Thomas Aquinas by Philip Hughes)
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