Theme: How truth resists counterfeit wisdom and the will must be ordered to the good. In these readings we face three related dangers and remedies: Tertullian shows how pagan philosophy supplies the raw materials for heresy, turning speculative systems into counterfeit gospels and seducing curious minds with dialectical sleights; Augustine responds theologically by reminding us that all things come from the plenitude of God’s goodness—creation is not a patch to fill God’s lack but a gift to be converted toward the fountain of life; Aquinas then brings this home practically by showing how the will’s intention must be rightly formed by the intellect so that our actions cohere toward true ends. Read together they warn: refuse the temptation to graft speculative systems onto the apostolic faith; receive instead the Scriptural light that locates all c ...