Second Reflection Paper

Thomas Pinto ? Week 10. Second Reflection Paper.
Why is the affirmation that there are real objective metaphysical ideas so important as a basis for understanding the theology of the Catholic Church? The affirmation of metaphysical ideas is important for Catholic theology since doctrines of fait are revelations from God, thereby they go ?beyond physics?, that is, beyond the natural world.
All revealed religion is, while not contradicting but incorporating the natural, is depended on a metaphysical understanding of reality. Objective metaphysical concepts are important to a Faith that, unlike
Furthermore, certain sciences, like the earth science, which are not subject to controlled experiments, arrive at hypothesis and theories utilizing inference to abstract information from uncontrolled natural observations. Isn?t this a metaphysical abstraction? The scientific method was developed and utilized by people who were committed Churchmen centuries before the relativism of Descartes, or the skepticism of Hume. Scholars, such as St. Albert the Great, Rogen Bacon, and countless others, slowly developed many of the techniques of natural science.^13^ Centuries before the pessimistic theology of the Reformers, the relativism and skepticism of contemporary philosophers, Aristotle arrived at a natural understanding of God and Catholic scientists learned about the Divine by studying the works of the Divine following the path of St. Paul. ?For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.?Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have