Introduction: Vatican II and the Future of Catholic-Protestant Ecumenism

Thomas Aquinas famously argues that the intellect has a kind of priority over the will, because knowledge informs the desires of the heart. The will can move only toward that which it first loves and it can love only what it first knows. Consequently, we act by knowledge, through love; or negatively stated, we cannot love what we do not know. It is precisely because we first come to know what is truly good that we begin to appreciate and love it, and in turn to seek it out habitually. Knowledge of the other leads one to frequent or dwell