Alexander of Hales, The Sum of Theology

On the discipline of theology <...> Chapter 1. Is the discipline of theology an [exact] science? <...> 1. Augustine, 83 Questions, q. 48: “Some things are taken on faith and are never a matter of understanding, for example, every history that deals with singular events and human deeds.” Therefore, since the discipline of theology is for the most part historical, as is clear from the Laws and the Gospel, it is about the things that are “never a matter of understanding.” But there cannot be a science about things that are not a matter of understanding <...> 2. Also, as Aristotle says at the beginning of his Metaphysics, “Experience is of singular individual things, art deals with universals <...>”; but the discipline of theology for the most part does not deal with universals, but with singular and individual things, as is clear from historical narratives in it. Therefore it is not art or science. 3. Also, there are three ways truth operates in disciplines: opinion, belief, science <...>. However, science never derives from things pertaining to opinion or belief. Now since theology as such deals with matters of belief <...>, therefore it does not operate as a science. <...> [To the contrary] a. That which is known through divine inspiration is known more truly than that which is known through human reasoning <...>. Therefore, since knowledge in theology