If theology is “faith seeking understanding,” as St. Anselm says, then the theologian must know what is to be believed before attempting to penetrate it further according to the power and limitations of the human intellect. Indeed, if he would have a supernatural light by which to consider what is beyond his natural ability to know, namely, the Revelation of God, then he must not only know what is to be believed, but believe it as well. Even more, he ought to have