Great Thinkers

Gerbert d'Aurillac/ Pope Sylvester II: He is the one to make use of Indian numbers, the numbers we use today. 1 2 3 4 5 6 those are examples of them.

Peter Abelard: He is a philosopher. As Christians gain more knowledge, they begin to doubt the religion. Back then it was ok because they know they’re dumb and uneducated. But now when they know stuff, they begin to doubt. Man A says, “I’ve been trying to turn water to wine like Jesus. Why isn’t this working? Was Christianity a hoax?” and Abelard would use logic to answer them and regain their faith. He explains to everyone that there’s a difference between the visible and spiritual world and you can’t always see the stuff in the spiritual world.

St. Bernard: he takes Abelard’s work a step further. He explains that it is God’s work and it is impossible to figure out what God is thinking.

Thomas Aquinas: wrote the book Summa Theologica explaining that faith and reason are two separate things. Just because you can prove through reason one thing doesn’t mean that contradicts faith. He debates to himself in the book but at the end, he states that you can be an intellectual and not understand God. And just because you can’t understand it doesn’t mean it’s not true.