foundation of our modern apologetic. Scholastic theology set before us the truths of Christianity in the most fully developed external form, consisting in their perfect and systematized fusion with the Aristotelian metaphysic. It presented them in a form which was regarded as irreducible and absolute, and as having been so since the very beginnings of Christianity. But the diligent and accurate study of the same Christianity, based upon the revision of the books of the New Testament, and upon the whole heritage of patristic tradition down to St. Thomas, clearly demonstrates that our theology is but a result of the life of the fundamental dogmas of Christianity as it has been lived by humanity in the different periods of its development. This theology contains the dogmas of the Creation, of the Fall, of Christ's redemptive work, of Grace, as seen in the light of the faith of humanity believing and living in Christ throughout
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