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Norman L. Geisler reintroduces evangelicals to the man they “forgot,” clarifying Aquinas’ teachings about the nature of God, Scripture, faith, reason, and other key issues of apologetics and ethics. Aquinas, the author argues, “is a more articulate defender of the faith than anyone in our midst.” Roman Catholic Aquinas scholar Robert N. Campbell observes that Geisler “makes a good case for his...

Another interesting incongruity occurs in evangelical criticism of Thomistic thought. Very often the charge is leveled that Aquinas’s faith in the Christian God is based on reason and evidence rather than on the authoritative revelation of God. Van Til speaks of this as “the authority of reason and experience.” If all truth comes as a revelation from God, then God’s authority, not human reason, is the ultimate basis for our belief in the Christian God.32 But here again Aquinas is in full agreement.
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