Thus we may confuse our father's overcoat with armor. And, like an overcoat, what we call faith may be merely an external form or pattern of thought into which we slipped quite easily. The shooting full of holes of such a cloak represents no real attack upon the faith once delivered. It need not cripple the wearer for life if he sees it in proper perspective. One can recover from a hole in his cloak, but he will need to change garments.
Philosophy is actually the history of the thought processes of men through the ages.
The problem with our brother is not that he understands too much about philosophy, but he understands too little about the nature of Christianity. First of all, the Way was never intended to be a compendium of epigrams, a collation of ethical proverbs, or a code of laws and rules. Obviously our Lord did not intend to load us up with a collection of new or original moral precepts. One does not become a moral being merely by observing statutes, but he observes the rules because he is a moral being. A moral law is not right simply because God commands it, but God commands it because it was right.