Downing writes that «it brings us back to
the credo ut intelligam (I believe in order to understand) of Augustine and Anselm.»
It helps massively the great current heresy, «When I understand it, I will believe it»; «
Credo ut intelligam» back to front.
Credo ut intelligam, believe in order that you may understand, was the motto of most medieval philosophy and theology, even of late scholasticism.
He explicitly rejects the principle of
credo ut intelligam on the grounds of the fundamental contradiction between revelation and reason.
Not exact matches
The operative principle of evolution is
credo et spero
ut intelligam.