Theological Philosophy or Philosophical Theology?: Centered on Thomas Aquinas' View on the Relation of Faith with Reason Lew, Jiwhang Thomas Aquinas accepts the natural intellectual power of reason in achieving the certitude of truth, yet stresses that the perfect realization of truth is made possible by faith empowering the will owing to the grace of divine revelation. He argues the certitude of truth completed by the flight of faith followed by the walk of reason, so that he constructs a philosophical theology based on the harmonic relation of faith with reason. For him, the walk of reason may be meaningful through the flight of faith, and the flight of faith has something to do with the specific living knowledge of truth in terms of its analogy of movement with the walk of reason. He is mainly concerned with faith flying toward God and the eternal life, and thus should link the arms and legs of reason with the wings of faith in harmony. But this means that he took use of philosophy for theology. For him, philosophy walks before faith on the road for truth, yet stands under faith on the place of truth. Hence his work for the harmonic relationship of faith and reason is not to mix philosophy with theology, but to turn the water of philosophy into the wine of theology. It is a result of faith strengthened by divine grace, which signifies the change of water into wine rather than the mixture of water with wine. It sheds light on a philosophical theology deepened by faith, not a theological philosophy in which faith is melted out in the philosophical discourse.

Theological Philosophy or Philosophical Theology?: Centered on Thomas Aquinas' View on the Relation of Faith with Reason Lew, Jiwhang Thomas Aquinas accepts the natural intellectual power of reason in achieving the certitude of truth, yet stresses that the perfect realization of truth is made possible by faith empowering the will owing to the grace of divine revelation. He argues the certitude of truth completed by the flight of faith followed by the walk of reason, so that he constructs a philosophical theology based on the harmonic relation of faith with reason. For him, the walk of reason may be meaningful through the flight of faith, and the flight of faith has something to do with the specific living knowledge of truth in terms of its analogy of movement with the walk of reason. He is mainly concerned with faith flying toward God and the eternal life, and thus should link the arms and legs of reason with the wings of faith in harmony. But this means that he took use of philosophy for theology. For him, philosophy walks before faith on the road for truth, yet stands under faith on the place of truth. Hence his work for the harmonic relationship of faith and reason is not to mix philosophy with theology, but to turn the water of philosophy into the wine of theology. It is a result of faith strengthened by divine grace, which signifies the change of water into wine rather than the mixture of water with wine. It sheds light on a philosophical theology deepened by faith, not a theological philosophy in which faith is melted out in the philosophical discourse.

Faith and Reason, Philosophical Theology, Thomas Aquinas