Aquinas in "Politics and Ethics"

Aquinas said "If it were left solely to reason to seek the truth about God, few men would possess a knowledge of God." (Ch. 4, p. 4) Because true understanding of God can only be obtained with a level of knowledge un-possessed by the common man, the Church has been created to facilitate reason for man. This is done so that man can have faith in God. The achievement of faith requires one to have strong reason to possess such steadfast foundation in spite of the lofty ideas and ideals set forth by the Church which has supplied these as reason for Christians to use as an avenue for redempt…