The two protagonists of this paper are Thomas Aquinas and Gottlieb Songen.

And if you don't know about Gottlieb Söngen, he was the professor of theology who taught Joseph Ratzinger and was a Bonaventurian scholar,

who has some articles recently translated into English in Proeclasea by Ken Oates.

I cannot recommend them highly enough.

The two articles he wrote in response to Carl Bard on the question of the Analogia Entes,

and so I'm going to build off his comments, but I just want to go ahead and just say the beginning.

These two articles by Sondon in response to Bard in proclosia in recent years, translated

in English are magnificent theological essays.

Seeking universality in truth, goodness, and beauty, Aquinas on the science of theology

in the university.

It bears keeping in mind that the modern university began initially as a project of theologians

thinking about the unity of knowledge 13th century faculties in european universities at padua

paris and oxford were formed initially from cathedral schools and divided into two main bodies the

faculty of the arts or humanities which included philosophy at its summit and the faculty

of theology. From the beginning, the intellectual unity of the university was, as a place

of learning, was far from a foregone conclusion as if all these medieval human beings agreed

on what it meant. It was more like a central problem or question

that the major scholars sought to address and to theorize

often in quite different ways.

Famously, they did so especially in light of the discovery

of the Aristotelian corpus,

since Aristotle discusses in the posterior analytics

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