The liberal arts, he recognized, made pathways by which the mind journeys to God — who, as the ultimate source of unity, cohesion, and interconnection in everything that exists, is also
the ultimate subject of inquiry.
Looked at that way, the essential content
of revelation, or perhaps the very nature
of God (whatever is the
ultimate «
subject matter» or «object»
of the
inquiry) dictates certain methods and movements
of thought which, if followed, denominate the
inquiry as «theology.»