Aristotelian would constitute the radical weakness of theology is for us precisely what makes for its grandeur. The profundity of Thomas’s theory lies in his recognition of the indispensability of the theological virtue of faith for doing theology. Only faith is able to make of theology a science of the real, because only faith allows us to encounter the Reality beyond the formulas that attempt to express it. Without supernatural faith, the theologian (or rather the person who claims the title) could