Who hasn’t been fascinated by the search for truth?Theology teaches us that the various truths which exist have, in the final analysis, their source in God.  Yet, let us try, in the first place, to know what the truth is.The notion of truth, or of the true, is constantly used in our daily life: it constitutes a reference without which a person could not live, at least in the realm of the practical.  Numerous examples prove this –… Read More

If we wish to reflect upon the divine intelligence, we must start with that which we know best, that which is most evident, so that we may make our way, by reason, to that which is most hidden from us.  Let us begin, therefore, with our understanding of created nature. We see it well through daily experience, the more an intelligence is brilliant, the more facility it has in considering things in their universality.  Thus will one student… Read More

Since our language is finite, can it express correctly the essence of God, can it name Him?  Actually, it seems impossible to attribute a name to something which surpasses us absolutely.  In other words, can one speak of God while avoiding a fall into two opposing errors: either to affirm that words and whatever else we can say of God is nothing but symbolic (Gnostic errors); or to apply to God human sentiments, to fall thus into… Read More

The subject of this article being the supernatural knowledge of God, is it not insignificant to ask oneself how the mind can know God supernaturally? If it consists in a supernatural knowledge, then we can only think of God, nothing is impossible, and he can let us see him according to his will… In reality, it is important to discern the problem whilst respecting the limits and the capacities of man in order not to fall into the confusion… Read More

Who has not experienced vertigo while thinking about the infinite? And all the while it seems to us inconceivable and unimaginable. But what is it? Saint Thomas Aquinas gives us a simple definition of it: “that which is not finite”, that which does not have a limit. Yet if the infinite appears to us to be something inconceivable, it’s is – among other things – because we do not have experience of unlimited things. To understand the… Read More