Lindy asked:

What is the difference between natural theology and revealed theology according to Aquinas?

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Natural theology is what we would now tend to think of as philosophy, in that it is what is revealed to
the light of natural reason e.g. not to murder. Revealed theology comes from 'outside' or 'beyond'
reason e.g. to honour your parents. It is what God teaches us that we might otherwise never know.
Analogous to the Christian distinction between natural and revealed theology, and underlying it, is the
more ancient rabbinic distinction between the Noahide laws, the 7 laws that we have in common and
which bind us as humans, and which must bind us if the world is not to end in disaster (as in the time
of Noah) and the Ten Commandments that were handed to Moses on Mount Sinai. The first is a
natural revelation of the law, the second a divine revelation. The fact that there is overlap between
what man can discover for himself and what only God can reveal is interesting, for it tells us
something about the relation of the divine to the human — that we a person is (potentially) god-like,
that humanity is unique.

Matthew Del Nevo

www.sicetnon.com