from the tablet today: fr Thomas Reese, an American Jesuit:
We need to imitate Augustine and Aquinas, not just quote them. They took the best thinking of their time and used it to explain Christianity to their contemporaries. Augustine used neo-platonism; Aquinas used Aristotle. We should take the best thinking of our time and use it to explain Christianity to our contemporaries. We should not expect people to become neo-platonists or aristotelians in order to understand Christianity, yet that is what much of our theology requires today.