was not really an empirical science per se. We must face the truth that Christian theology did not come from “below,” i.e., human experience, but from “above,” i.e., special revelation. The Deductive Method In distinction to Aristotle’s inductive method, adopted by Aquinas for use in Christian theology, we will be using the analytic, a priori, deductive method which moves: 1. from the whole to the parts, 2. from the universal to the particular, 3. from the infinite to the finite, 4. from truth to