Can the Existence of God be known by reason?
“Things diversified by different degrees of existence, so as to be more or less perfect, must be caused by one first and most perfect being.” Thomas Aquinas Attempts at proving the existence of God by the use of reason have a venerable past, but in the eyes of many Christians they appear to have no future. Is this true? I don t think so. A series of misunderstandings often brought on by the poor presentation of the traditional doctrine has cut us off from an important and even fascinating part of our Christian heritage. The proofs for the existence of someone like St. Thomas Aquinas were often presented to us as if grasping them and being convinced by them was simply a matter of logic alone. The tone of these presentations was: “Here are the words; here are the inferences between the statements, and here is the conclusion: God exists (and if you don t quite get it, you should believe it, anyway.) St. Thomas proofs were presented as logical arguments in what could be called a hyperconce
