What does the structure of the following excerpt from Aquinas's Summa Theologica illustrate: "Is there a God? REPLY: There are five ways in which one can prove there is a God . . ."?

d. Aquinas’s use of dialectical method.

Explanation:

According to a different source, these are the options that come with this question:

a. Aquinas’s lack of faith in God.

b. Aquinas’s deliberate imitation of liturgical practice.

c. Aquinas’s insistence that his readers accept revealed truth.

d. Aquinas’s use of dialectical method.

The main thing that this statement from Aquinas shows is that he employs the dialectical method. The dialectical method, or simply, dialectics, is a method that attempts to mimic discourse between two people who hold different points of view. When using this system, it is assumed that both people want to establish the truth about a matter through reasonable and sound arguments. In this example, Aquinas is employing it in order to get to the truth of whether there is a God.