St. Thomas Aquinas Confirms

Through out the Middle Ages, Theology was considered the most important science and because of this greatly scrutinized. Although people accepted their beliefs, they wanted something to both explain and augment their faith. At this time, many of Aristotle’s writings were translated from Greek and Arabic into Latin, making them a great deal more accessible to people. This broadened knowledge profoundly influenced the people, who began to ask the question of what relationship existed …

…existence, and attempted to prove it through the article using two objections, five arguments for God’s existence, and finally two replies to the objections. The Five Ways are bracketed by the two objections and replies, and were used to present his argument first with doubts, then with explanations for why these doubts were incorrect, and then with replies to the doubts from the explanations which reiterate his point that God does in fact exist.