What was Augustine's central insight about evil?
What is Thomas Aquinas' First Way (proof for God's existence)?
What did Aquinas mean by 'natural law'?
What is the relationship between faith and reason according to Aquinas?
What was Augustine's major autobiographical work?
What is Augustine's 'City of God' about?
What is scholasticism?
Hint: Aquinas' Summa is a classic scholastic work.
Which medieval thinker wrote the Summa Theologiae?
Hint: He is closely associated with scholastic theology.
What does Boethius explore in The Consolation of Philosophy?
Hint: He writes while awaiting execution.
What is an objection in a scholastic argument?
Hint: Scholastic texts often raise objections first.
Why did medieval thinkers value both faith and reason?
Hint: Aquinas treats truth as unified.
What is analogy in medieval God-talk?
Hint: Goodness in God and humans is related, not identical.