Healthy theological discussion within the Church is useful and necessary especially when the questions being debated have not been defined by the Magisterium. This is what Benedict XVI said during the General Audience catechesis on November 4th, which was dedicated to the debate between St. Bernard of Clairvaux and Abelard, proponents, respectively, of the monastic and scholastic approaches to theology.Though their approaches were not without tension, the theological dispute between them ...
