De scholasticorum sententia philosophiam esse theologiæ ancillam commentatio

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cited in Pohle's God: His Knowability, Essence, and Attributes: A Dogmatic Treatise regarding the preeminent superiority of the science of theology:

This threefold excellence of theology [immanent dignity, other-worldy aim, certitude] supplies us with sufficient motives for studying it diligently and thoroughly. There does not exist a more sublime science. Theology is the queen of all sciences,—a queen to whom even philosophy, despite its dignity and independence, must pay homage. Hence the oft-quoted Scholastic axiom: “ Philosophia est ancilla theologiae.”7 The more directly a science leads up to God, the nobler, the sublimer, and the more useful it necessarily is. But can any science lead more directly to God than theology, which treats solely of God and things divine?