[Uncle Chip]

After a few theologians got it wrong, St. Thomas Aquinas came along and offered an explanation that became classic. In all change that we normally observe, he teaches, appearances change, but deep down, the essence of a thing stays the same.

So since there was no Tradition to rely upon, Aquinas then turned to the mysticism of that Greek philosopher Aristotle, who then became a patriarch, so to speak, of the Catholic Church.

[Mad Dawg]

Aristotle? Mysticism?

Have you read any Aristotle? He's about as mystical as the sports section of the NY Daily News. Less so if anything.