Post by fatpaul on Oct 3, 2019 12:04:06 GMT
The funny thing is that people say this is a ‘quote’ from St.Thomas Aquinas, hence the quotation marks, but it isn’t a direct quote at all. My grammar isn’t that great but if I remember my basic English is should be written as:
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible - St. Thomas Aquinas.
Because it’s a paraphrase from the Summa Theologica. I tend to think that people who use this as a bumper-sticker quote haven’t actually read the Summa (not even referentially). If I’m wrong then it should be easy for the person, who uses this quote, to show me exactly where this is written in this form. I don’t think they even know the actual quote from which it is paraphrased from! If there’s a Heaven then poor Thomas Aquinas must have a big palm print on his face from all the facepalming due to the misuse of this paraphrase because the hilarity of it all is that the Summa is nothing but explanations after explanations.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible - St. Thomas Aquinas.
Because it’s a paraphrase from the Summa Theologica. I tend to think that people who use this as a bumper-sticker quote haven’t actually read the Summa (not even referentially). If I’m wrong then it should be easy for the person, who uses this quote, to show me exactly where this is written in this form. I don’t think they even know the actual quote from which it is paraphrased from! If there’s a Heaven then poor Thomas Aquinas must have a big palm print on his face from all the facepalming due to the misuse of this paraphrase because the hilarity of it all is that the Summa is nothing but explanations after explanations.