e fact that its leading minds, Thomas and Bonaventura, say, carried out that co-ordination between believing acceptance of revealed and traditional truth on the one hand and rational argumentation on the other hand with unfailing resoluteness--although they also knew just where to draw the line between the claims of reason and the claims of faith (Pieper, 1960, pp. 37-8).
Where logic seemed impossible, faith intervened, so that Aquinas could say and be understood as rational that "no one should doubt concerning the faith; rather, he ought to believe things pertinent to faith more than what he sees; for man's sight can be deceived but God's knowledge is never mistaken" (Aquinas, 1960, p. 287). Freemantle's characterization of the medieval philosophers as working in an age of belief is thus quite apt. If the method of thought connecting faith with reason was for Boethius a philosophical insight, it was for Aquinas a full-blown philosophical system. Aquinas's method was derived from Aristotle, whom Aquinas accepted "omnivorously" (Freemantle, 1954, p. 145).
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