 Although Aquinas might not be a good fit for “the traditional view”, some later thinkers are. Starting with Duns Scotus, the role of inferential arguments in the rational acceptance of revelation was gradually expanded and made more precise in mainstream Christian thought. From the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century, most Catholic theologians saw “credibility arguments” as necessary for faith and as capable of establishing beyond reasonable doubt that God has revealed the Christian religion (Lamont 2004: 87–88). The act of faith was reduced to the drawing of the necessary inference from this insight to the conclusion that Christian beliefs are true. On the Protestant side, this development continued and culminated in thinkers such as William Chillingworth, John Tillotson and John Locke, whose views—ironically—are the closest matches to what Penelhum describes as the “traditional view”. As we have seen, however, the church fathers and Thomas Aquinas held more complex views in which elements of both inferential and non-inferential justification are found, and where supernatural grace and the will play important epistemic roles. Below we will encounter again these elements in the accounts of contemporary philosophers and theologians. 