Aquinas was no Averroist. His life’s work would be an implicit repudiation of Averroës’s idea that reason has a higher claim to truth than faith does.12 Instead, Thomas Aquinas’s reading of Aristotle led him in a different direction. He would conclude that faith and reason are actually two sides of the same coin. His writings would try to persuade his age that men are part of both a divine and a human order, and both have valid standing in their lives.
