What does it all mean for Christians seeking to serve Jesus today? Let's review:

taught the church to see God as Trinity, mankind as fallen from inherited original sin, salvation as predestined, evil as the result of misused free will, and history as a war between God and Satan.

gave us a reasonable approach to God's existence, to Jesus' death, and to faith itself.

made reason into rationalism.

And Thomas made rationalism into faith.

They were right about many things, wrong about some things, but influential about everything, as we'll see next week.

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Other segments of the "Why do we think the way we do?" series:

"Why do we think the way we think?"

"A stonecutter and the Savior"

"A broad thinker and the world he left us"

"The biological philosopher"

"So what?"