Someone please explain this statement for me--in clarity of terms.
I learned that faith and reason, mind and heart, will and intellect were complementary faculties of the soul.
Was this teaching--all those years--in error?
I'm inclined to agree with your observation Marcellinus, it is will and intellect, not merely intellect(that is ironically a liberal conceit! Cogito ergo sum and all that.)
Christ did not preach the virtues of syllogisms and logic, but of charity and faith. His words can be grasped by children and yet the intellect cannot fathom the depths of His wisdom. Even St. Thomas Aquinas felt in later years that his own writings were mere chaff.
"Peace on earth to men of good will"
Not "men of good intellect".