--Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant?
--I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but not that I had lost selfrespect. What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?
[James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man].
Early in his life, at the hands of his Jesuit teachers, James Joyce experienced the stimulating effect of Aquinas's intellect (and, through Aquinas, that of Ibn Rushd's beloved Aristotle): he benefited from the experience enormously, never to forget or forsake it.
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