From the Summa Theologica, by St. Thomas Aquinas, c. 1265 a.d. This excerpt is from the very first Article, "Whether, besides philosophy, any further doctrine is required?"
"Reply to Objection 2:
Sciences are differentiated according to the various means through which knowledge is obtained. For the astronomer and the physicist both may prove the same conclusion: that the earth, for instance, is round: the astronomer by means of mathematics (i.e. abstracting from matter), but the physicist by means of matter itself. Hence there is no reason why those things which may be learned from philosophical science, so far as they can be known by natural reason, may not also be taught us by another science so far as they fall within revelation. Hence theology included in sacred doctrine differs in kind from that theology which is part of philosophy."
Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_myth
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
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