Intellectus fidei

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intellectus fidei , a term used in scholasticism , is understood and translated as an insight into faith. According to different conceptions of the concept of reason, this can be understood differently:

  1. as knowledge of the contents of belief with the help of a largely independent reason ("credo, ut agam, ago ut intellegam", Anselm von Canterbury )
  2. as knowledge through and with the help of faith as a prerequisite for knowledge ( Thomas Aquinas )

Theories of the vision of God (see mysticism ) and the evidence of God put a special emphasis on this question .