Triangles

Students and devotees of Thomas Aquinas believed that the immutable laws of logic constrain even the omnipotence of the Divine, or more precisely, that the immutable laws of logic are one and the same as the nature of the Divine, or of the same substance as the nature of the Divine, and thus even the omnipotence of God could not create a triangle whose internal angles did not sum up to 180 degrees. In opposition to the Thomists, the students of St. Augustine of Hippo claimed that while such a triangle might be a blasphemous contradiction in our universe, God had the power to create a universe where such a triangle could exist. History of course has vindicated the Augustinians, who perhaps in their piety were too righteous to conceive of such blasphemies as non-Euclidean geometry, or to realize that the provenance of such triangles could never be the same as the mercy and benevolence of the Almighty.