Sic Et Non Was an Effort to Demonstrate That

question 81

Multiple Choice

Sic et Non was an effort to demonstrate that

• A) there was an irreconcilable conflict between reason and faith and that the Christian must choose faith.
• B) different theologians had conflicting opinions and hence, the enterprise of theology in general was vain.
• C) Aquinas's Summa Theologica was methodologically flawed.
• D) the conflicting opinions of theologians could be reconciled through reasoned argument (dialectics).
• E) there were no conflicting opinions between faith and reason.

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