Aquinas’ scholastic technique seeks the resolution of differences, whereas polemics thrive on amplifying them. The scholastic quaestio (Latin for “question”), a timeless method – at once ancient and unexpectedly modern – suited to unraveling the most elusive riddles. This precise intellectual technique – the dialectical art of structured questioning, disputation, and synthesis – has roots extending across millennia, from the bustling agora of ancient Athens to the cloistered halls of medieval Christendom. Long before monks debated the Trinity by candlelight, the Greeks were already sharpening the blade of inquiry beneath the azure expanse of the sunlit sky. Socrates, the philosophical gadfly of Athens, honed the art of relentless, maieutic questioning. Wending his way through the city streets and marketplaces, he provoked his fellow citizens to reexamine what they thought they knew, unmasking contradictions and compelling the mind to confront its own shadows. Through Plato’s dialogues …