National Catholic Reporter, December 17th, 2004
Near the end of his life and of his phenomenal inquiry into the nature of God and faith, Thomas Aquinas was transfixed by an ecstasy so forceful that he declared his life's work to be mere "straw." The 13th-century Dominican monk had written that human reason could provide proof of God's existence. His famous Summa Theologia, however, took readers only so far on the magic carpet of reason before landing them slowly and softly, but squarely, in the courtyard of faith. Ayn Rand, by contrast, kept a granite grip on a worldview she called "objectivism." Humanity's greatness, said the novelist-phi...
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