
The paper deals with two seemingly opposing fields pertaining to the relationship between theology and philosophy, in which the pursuit of apprehending Divinity through human experience may have divergent meanings. However, such an assumption only seems apparent in relation to scholastic thought, which turns out to be closely linked to religious thinking, both in the fields of theology and philosophy, which do not diverge from each other in sharp contrast. This is demonstrated in three sections, drawing on the source and supplementary literature, although rather in a general and opinion-forming approach than in the form of a systematic exegesis aimed at justifying this coherence. I also provided a brief introduction and some concluding remarks. In the following research, I examine the obvious links between theology and philosophy that point to the validity of this thesis. I based my thesis on historical and analytical insight into the leading metaphysical trends of medieval Western Scholasticism and Aquinas’ concept of Ipsum Esse, as well as comparable ideas in the second Latin scholastic thought at the turn of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, otherwise mainly observable in Francisco Suárez of the Jesuit Order. The last issue, I set out more extensively, refers to the Aquinas’ Ipsum Esse, which is a theory commonly tied to existential metaphysics, less frequently so with theology. Nevertheless, it can be reasonably demonstrated that Aquinas presumably pointed to Ipsum Esse as a metaphysical category that may convincingly combine theology with philosophy by thinking of God as a supreme being manifesting Himself in His inner nature within reality. Through this approach, Aquinas seems to fill an important gap that usually divides these two disciplines. Despite their presumed divergences, they undoubtedly have something in common. In Aquinas and scholastics who followed him to a large extent, God turns out to be the primum movens and Ipsum Esse and an underlying concept for both theology, which operates on the borders of metaphysics, and metaphysics, which operates on the boundaries of theology, although they are approaching God from different perspectives in their own respective fields. They seem to somehow refer to the same object of knowledge, namely by referring to the concept of God as either a metaphysical foundation, a doctrinal premise for further inquiries, or the ultimate climax of the entire system of knowledge.
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