(March 26, 2022 at 3:54 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: I do not see the two as mutually exclusive. It is theology 101 with respect to Scripture that it can satisfy on multiple levels. As with some maps, the edges of understanding are often labeled "here ther be monsters".
Well, case in point, there is no Scripture. Saint Irenaeus chose, out of dozen to two dozen different Gospels, four, because, in his view, the Earth was flat with four corners, and so, there just had to be four gospels. I suppose that such is the realm of theological studies.