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| How Different the Uncertainty of the New Academy is from the Certainty of the Christian Faith.
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Chapter 18.—How Different the
Uncertainty of the New Academy is from the Certainty of the
Christian Faith.
As regards the uncertainty about
everything which Varro alleges to be the differentiating
characteristic of the New Academy, the city of God thoroughly
detests such doubt as madness. Regarding matters which it
apprehends by the mind and reason it has most absolute certainty,
although its knowledge is limited because of the corruptible body
pressing down the mind, for, as the apostle says, “We know in
part.”1290
It
believes also the evidence of the senses which the mind uses by aid
of the body; for [if one who trusts his senses is sometimes
deceived], he is more wretchedly deceived who fancies he should
never trust them. It believes also the Holy Scriptures, old and
new, which we call canonical, and which are the source of the faith
by which the just lives1291
and by which we walk without
doubting whilst we are absent from the Lord.1292
So long as this faith remains
inviolate and firm, we may without blame entertain doubts regarding
some things which we have neither perceived by sense nor by reason,
and which have not been revealed to us by the canonical Scriptures,
nor come to our knowledge through witnesses whom it is absurd to
disbelieve.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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