Legal Commentary

My money quote of the week:

A good deal of the Reformation that Luther set off consisted in trying to run both these Greek philosophers [Plato and Aristotle] off theology's premises, claiming that while they were both the work of the devil, Aristotle in particular was an especially devilish chap. But if you run the philosophers out of town, the result is inevitably to weaken theology, too, and you will reduce seminary training to Bible thumping and choir practice. Religion needs theology and theologians need philosophy if they are going to do anything more than tell us that God told them so when pressed about their faith. The great theologians of the Middle Ages understood the intimate relationship of philosophy and theology, that one tends to provoke the other into rethinking assumptions and hence they nourish each other. So it does no good for either one to call the other the work of the devil and to try to go it alone as if they alone spoke with the tongues of angels.

---John D. Caputo, Philosophy and Theology

It's just like love and marriage. As Pope John Paul II told us so well:

Faith and Reason

Faith and Reason

Go together and are

Never out of season

As was told by Pater

You shan't have one

You shan't have one

You shan't have one

Without the other