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When, on the basis of preconceived assumptions, these positions tend to obscure the contents of faith or to deny their universal validity, then not only do they abase reason but in so doing they also disqualify themselves. If this technology is not ordered to something greater than a merely utilitarian end, then it could soon prove inhuman and even become potential destroyer of the human race.98. Here we look in detail at chapter 4. Throughout the twentieth century, the Church has been served by a powerful array of thinkers formed in the school of the Angelic Doctor. It was easy to confuse philosophy—understood as practical wisdom and an education for life—with a higher and esoteric kind of knowledge, reserved to those few who were perfect. In refusing the truth offered by divine Revelation, philosophy only does itself damage, since this is to preclude access to a deeper knowledge of truth. 2010 and 2011 . In a spirit both sceptical and agnostic, some began to voice a general mistrust, which led some to focus more on faith and others to deny its rationality altogether. Its adherents claim that the search is an end in itself, without any hope or possibility of ever attaining the goal of truth. In the light of these profound needs, inscribed by God in human nature, the human and humanizing meaning of God's word also emerges more clearly. It comprises an introduction, seven chapters, and a conclusion. It cannot be said that the Catholic tradition erred when it took certain texts of Saint John and Saint Paul to be statements about the very being of Christ. For the reasons suggested here, it has seemed to me urgent to re-emphasize with this Encyclical Letter the Church's intense interest in philosophy—indeed the intimate bond which ties theological work to the philosophical search for truth. ): Glauben – (wie) geht das? They are born into a family and in a family they grow, eventually entering society through their activity. As a philosophy of nothingness, it has a certain attraction for people of our time. Fides et Ratio . 112. I encourage them to pay special attention to the philosophical preparation of those who will proclaim the Gospel to the men and women of today and, even more, of those who will devote themselves to theological research and teaching. Faith asks that its object be understood with the help of reason; and at the summit of its searching reason acknowledges that it cannot do without what faith presents. 41. 121 This involves a reciprocity between the theological disciplines and the insights drawn from the various strands of philosophy; and such a reciprocity can prove genuinely fruitful for the communication and deeper understanding of the faith. Nach der natürlichen Theologie ist Gott selbst als die Wahrheit zu erkennen. The crucified Son of God is the historic event upon which every attempt of the mind to construct an adequate explanation of the meaning of existence upon merely human argumentation comes to grief. This in turn has obscured the true dignity of reason, which is no longer equipped to know the truth and to seek the absolute. Rather, it was used in the sense in which Aristotle had spoken of the experimental sciences as “ancillary” to “prima philosophia”. Human language thus embodies the language of God, who communicates his own truth with that wonderful “condescension” which mirrors the logic of the Incarnation. If they discover that it is false, they reject it; but if they can establish its truth, they feel themselves rewarded. 1 Jn 5:9; Jn 5:31-32). Here I do not mean to speak of metaphysics in the sense of a specific school or a particular historical current of thought. Ex 33:11; Jn 15:14-15) and lives among them (cf. Jn 1:14-16) of everything which was created in him and through him and which therefore in him finds its fulfilment (cf. If pagans were to understand them, the first Christians could not refer only to “Moses and the prophets” when they spoke. Underlying all the Church's … Here begins, then, the journey which will lead them to discover ever new frontiers of knowledge. Precisely by being rooted in the tradition will we be able today to develop for the future an original, new and constructive mode of thinking. Developing further what the Magisterium before me has taught, I intend in this final section to point out certain requirements which theology—and more fundamentally still, the word of God itself—makes today of philosophical thinking and contemporary philosophies. Other modes of latent fideism appear in the scant consideration accorded to speculative theology, and in disdain for the classical philosophy from which the terms of both the understanding of faith and the actual formulation of dogma have been drawn. Only within this horizon of truth will people understand their freedom in its fullness and their call to know and love God as the supreme realization of their true self. The truths of philosophy, it should be said, are not restricted only to the sometimes ephemeral teachings of professional philosophers. We see here philosophy's valid aspiration to be an autonomous enterprise, obeying its own rules and employing the powers of reason alone. Rom 1:19-21; 2:14-15; Acts 14:16-17). And I certainly wish to stress that our heritage of knowledge and wisdom has indeed been enriched in different fields. It is appropriate, I think, to review them, however briefly, in order to point out their errors and the consequent risks for philosophical work. Laborem exercens | Maga Isten oltotta az emberek elméjébe a törekvést, hogy meg akarják ismerni az igazságot és önmagukat, és Istent megismerve és szeretve eljuthassanak önmaguk teljes … 108 This task, which is theology's prime concern, challenges philosophy as well. FIDES ET RATIO FIDES ET RATIO Strona 33 influences positively the particular hope. Given all of reason's inherent and historical limitations, it is difficult enough to recognize the inalienable powers proper to it; but it is still more difficult at times to discern in specific philosophical claims what is valid and fruitful from faith's point of view and what is mistaken or dangerous. Rightly concerned to make theological discourse relevant and understandable to our time, some theologians use only the most recent opinions and philosophical language, ignoring the critical evaluation which ought to be made of them in the light of the tradition. On the contrary, the two modes of knowledge lead to truth in all its fullness. Here the words of the Book of Proverbs are pertinent: “The human mind plans the way, but the Lord directs the steps” (16:9). 31. From the time the Gospel was first preached, the Church has known the process of encounter and engagement with cultures. If I try to count them, they are more than the sand. A philosophy conscious of this as its “constitutive status” cannot but respect the demands and the data of revealed truth. With a false modesty, people rest content with partial and provisional truths, no longer seeking to ask radical questions about the meaning and ultimate foundation of human, personal and social existence. Rom 5:12-15). It is the one and the same God who establishes and guarantees the intelligibility and reasonableness of the natural order of things upon which scientists confidently depend,29 and who reveals himself as the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. This requirement is implicit in sapiential and analytical knowledge alike; and in particular it is a requirement for knowing the moral good, which has its ultimate foundation in the Supreme Good, God himself. The Apostle's words seem all too pertinent now if we apply them to the various kinds of esoteric superstition widespread today, even among some believers who lack a proper critical sense. Addressed to the world's bishops, it is concerned with the relation between faith and reason, especially faith and philosophy in the contemporary world. This in turn makes it possible to erase from the countenance of man and woman the marks of their likeness to God, and thus to lead them little by little either to a destructive will to power or to a solitude without hope. As a mode of linguistic communication, catechesis must present the Church's doctrine in its integrity, 118 demonstrating its link with the life of the faithful. Nonetheless, it is true that a single term conceals a variety of meanings. This does not mean that they identified the content of their message with the systems to which they referred. Abandoning the investigation of being, modern philosophical research has concentrated instead upon human knowing. Eph 1:9), by which, through Christ, the Word made flesh, man has access to the Father in the Holy Spirit and comes to share in the divine nature”.5 This initiative is utterly gratuitous, moving from God to men and women in order to bring them to salvation. 71. First, then, let us consider the links between faith and philosophy in the course of history. At the same time, the Church considers philosophy an indispensable help for a deeper understanding of faith and for communicating the truth of the Gospel to those who do not yet know it. From birth, therefore, they are immersed in traditions which give them not only a language and a cultural formation but also a range of truths in which they believe almost instinctively. The fruitfulness of this relationship is confirmed by the experience of great Christian theologians who also distinguished themselves as great philosophers, bequeathing to us writings of such high speculative value as to warrant comparison with the masters of ancient philosophy. This first requirement is in fact most helpful in stimulating philosophy to conform to its proper nature. Even certain conceptions of life coming from the East betray this lack of confidence, denying truth its exclusive character and assuming that truth reveals itself equally in different doctrines, even if they contradict one another. This wisdom comes to know by way of connaturality; it presupposes faith and eventually formulates its right judgement on the basis of the truth of faith itself: “The wisdom named among the gifts of the Holy Spirit is distinct from the wisdom found among the intellectual virtues. Faced with the various philosophies, the Fathers were not afraid to acknowledge those elements in them that were consonant with Revelation and those that were not. It was when he encountered the truth of Christian faith that he found strength to undergo the radical conversion to which the philosophers he had known had been powerless to lead him. It can with genuine certitude attain to reality itself as knowable, though in consequence of sin that certitude is partially obscured and weakened”. This has given rise to different forms of agnosticism and relativism which have led philosophical research to lose its way in the shifting sands of widespread scepticism. The grave responsibility to provide for the appropriate training of those charged with teaching philosophy both in seminaries and ecclesiastical faculties must not be neglected. A reading of the sacred text would reveal other aspects of this problem; but what emerges clearly is the rejection of all forms of relativism, materialism and pantheism. In discussing these currents of thought, it has not been my intention to present a complete picture of the present state of philosophy, which would, in any case, be difficult to reduce to a unified vision. On the one hand, the knowledge acquired through belief can seem an imperfect form of knowledge, to be perfected gradually through personal accumulation of evidence; on the other hand, belief is often humanly richer than mere evidence, because it involves an interpersonal relationship and brings into play not only a person's capacity to know but also the deeper capacity to entrust oneself to others, to enter into a relationship with them which is intimate and enduring. These are the challenges which the Chosen People had to confront and to which they had to respond. The intimate essence of God and of the human being become intelligible: in the mystery of the Incarnate Word, human nature and divine nature are safeguarded in all their autonomy, and at the same time the unique bond which sets them together in mutuality without confusion of any kind is revealed.97. There is a further reason why I write these reflections. Yet, for all that they may evade it, the truth still influences life. Fides et ratio | Dives in misericordia | The Church received the ultimate truth about human life as a gift of love from God the Father in the revelation of This nihilism has been justified in a sense by the terrible experience of evil which has marked our age. It was then transposed into the philosophical field, but has remained somewhat ambiguous, both because judgement on what is called “postmodern” is sometimes positive and sometimes negative, and because there is as yet no consensus on the delicate question of the demarcation of the different historical periods. Through the mediation of a philosophy which is also true wisdom, people today will come to realize that their humanity is all the more affirmed the more they entrust themselves to the Gospel and open themselves to Christ. We may say, then, that culture itself has an intrinsic capacity to receive divine Revelation. Seminars. To believe it possible to know a universally valid truth is in no way to encourage intolerance; on the contrary, it is the essential condition for sincere and authentic dialogue between persons. That is why the criticism of Celsus—that Christians were “illiterate and uncouth”31—is unfounded and untrue. One altar in particular caught his eye, and he took this as a convenient starting-point to establish a common base for the proclamation of the kerygma. Therefore, if that which until now has been a matter of debate concerning the highest essence has been established on the basis of due reasoning, then the foundation of one's certainty is not shaken in the least if the intellect cannot penetrate it in a way that allows clear formulation. Historical studies flourished, resulting in a rediscovery of the riches of Medieval thought, which until then had been largely unknown; and there emerged new Thomistic schools. It is true that ancient Israel did not come to knowledge of the world and its phenomena by way of abstraction, as did the Greek philosopher or the Egyptian sage. A philosophy denying the possibility of an ultimate and overarching meaning would be not only ill-adapted to its task, but false. Worum geht es bei der Frage nach dem Verhältnis von Glaube und Vernunft. Not only is it not restricted to sensory knowledge, from the moment that it can reflect critically upon the data of the senses, but, by discoursing on the data provided by the senses, reason can reach the cause which lies at the origin of all perceptible reality. Complex systems of thought have thus been built, yielding results in the different fields of knowledge and fostering the development of culture and history. Revelation therefore introduces into our history a universal and ultimate truth which stirs the human mind to ceaseless effort; indeed, it impels reason continually to extend the range of its knowledge until it senses that it has done all in its power, leaving no stone unturned. For the Old Testament, knowledge is not simply a matter of careful observation of the human being, of the world and of history, but supposes as well an indispensable link with faith and with what has been revealed. For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable JavaScript. How are we to explain these dynamics? This ordering of studies influenced, promoted and enabled much of the development of modern philosophy, albeit indirectly. In abandoning these rules, the human being runs the risk of failure and ends up in the condition of “the fool”. This rapid survey of the history of philosophy, then, reveals a growing separation between faith and philosophical reason. I cannot fail to note, especially in the context of this Encyclical Letter, that one chapter of the Constitution Gaudium et Spes amounts to a virtual compendium of the biblical anthropology from which philosophy too can draw inspiration. This applies equally to the judgements of moral conscience, which Sacred Scripture considers capable of being objectively true. The undeniable triumphs of scientific research and contemporary technology have helped to propagate a scientistic outlook, which now seems boundless, given its inroads into different cultures and the radical changes it has brought. On the contrary, the Magisterium's interventions are intended above all to prompt, promote and encourage philosophical enquiry. Such a philosophy will be a place where Christian faith and human cultures may meet, a point of understanding between believer and non-believer. In 2010 and 2011, The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, in collaboration with the Fides et Ratio Seminars at the Faith and Reason Institute (Warner, NH/Washington, DC), will host a two-year program entitled, “Introduction to the Catholic Intellectual Tradition.” This obliged the Council to reaffirm emphatically that there exists a knowledge which is peculiar to faith, surpassing the knowledge proper to human reason, which nevertheless by its nature can discover the Creator. I have no wish to direct theologians to particular methods, since that is not the competence of the Magisterium. This pluralism also imposes upon the Magisterium the responsibility of expressing a judgement as to whether or not the basic tenets of these different schools are compatible with the demands of the word of God and theological enquiry. The great Pope revisited and developed the First Vatican Council's teaching on the relationship between faith and reason, showing how philosophical thinking contributes in fundamental ways to faith and theological learning.78 More than a century later, many of the insights of his Encyclical Letter have lost none of their interest from either a practical or pedagogical point of view—most particularly, his insistence upon the incomparable value of the philosophy of Saint Thomas. 52. Theologians should remember that their work corresponds “to a dynamism found in the faith itself” and that the proper object of their enquiry is “the Truth which is the living God and his plan for salvation revealed in Jesus Christ”. To be sure, not every truth to which we come has the same value. Today, too, theology faces a dual task. The depth of revealed wisdom disrupts the cycle of our habitual patterns of thought, which are in no way able to express that wisdom in its fullness. A theology without a metaphysical horizon could not move beyond an analysis of religious experience, nor would it allow the intellectus fidei to give a coherent account of the universal and transcendent value of revealed truth. It could be said that a good part of modern and contemporary philosophy would not exist without this stimulus of the word of God. Col 1:17). It is a journey which has unfolded—as it must—within the horizon of personal self-consciousness: the more human beings know reality and the world, the more they know themselves in their uniqueness, with the question of the meaning of things and of their very existence becoming ever more pressing. It is the Church's duty to indicate the elements in a philosophical system which are incompatible with her own faith. 3. Restating almost to the letter the teaching of the First Vatican Council's Constitution Dei Filius, and taking into account the principles set out by the Council of Trent, the Second Vatican Council's Constitution Dei Verbum pursued the age-old journey of understanding faith, reflecting on Revelation in the light of the teaching of Scripture and of the entire Patristic tradition. The chapter deals with the value of the human person created in the image of God, explains the dignity and superiority of the human being over the rest of creation, and declares the transcendent capacity of human reason.80 The problem of atheism is also dealt with in Gaudium et Spes, and the flaws of its philosophical vision are identified, especially in relation to the dignity and freedom of the human person.81 There is no doubt that the climactic section of the chapter is profoundly significant for philosophy; and it was this which I took up in my first Encyclical Letter Redemptor Hominis and which serves as one of the constant reference-points of my teaching: “The truth is that only in the mystery of the Incarnate Word does the mystery of man take on light. The philosopher who learns humility will also find courage to tackle questions which are difficult to resolve if the data of Revelation are ignored—for example, the problem of evil and suffering, the personal nature of God and the question of the meaning of life or, more directly, the radical metaphysical question, “Why is there something rather than nothing?”. The wisdom of the Cross, therefore, breaks free of all cultural limitations which seek to contain it and insists upon an openness to the universality of the truth which it bears. 103 Were this not so, the word of God, which is always a divine word in human language, would not be capable of saying anything about God. These are the questions which we find in the sacred writings of Israel, as also in the Veda and the Avesta; we find them in the writings of Confucius and Lao-Tze, and in the preaching of Tirthankara and Buddha; they appear in the poetry of Homer and in the tragedies of Euripides and Sophocles, as they do in the philosophical writings of Plato and Aristotle. 86. In effect, every philosophical system, while it should always be respected in its wholeness, without any instrumentalization, must still recognize the primacy of philosophical enquiry, from which it stems and which it ought loyally to serve. While it demands of all who hear it the adherence of faith, the proclamation of the Gospel in different cultures allows people to preserve their own cultural identity. But it was the task of the fathers of philosophy to bring to light the link between reason and religion. Men and women can accomplish no more important act in their lives than the act of faith; it is here that freedom reaches the certainty of truth and chooses to live in that truth. To every culture Christians bring the unchanging truth of God, which he reveals in the history and culture of a people. In short, Christian Revelation becomes the true point of encounter and engagement between philosophical and theological thinking in their reciprocal relationship. This was a truth which the holy monks of Christian antiquity understood well when they called Mary “the table at which faith sits in thought”. Others, more alert to the link between faith and culture, claim that theology should look more to the wisdom contained in peoples' traditions than to a philosophy of Greek and Eurocentric provenance. He sought truth wherever it might be found and gave consummate demonstration of its universality. 64. 117 Proclamation or kerygma is a call to conversion, announcing the truth of Christ, which reaches its summit in his Paschal Mystery: for only in Christ is it possible to know the fullness of the truth which saves (cf. „Fides et ratio“ überwindet diesen Niedergang und diese Beschränktheit der Vernunft und der Freiheit und stellt stattdessen eine untrennbare Verbindung zwischen Wahrheit und Freiheit her. 53. For Adam, the first man, was a type of him who was to come, Christ the Lord. The intimate bond between theological and philosophical wisdom is one of the Christian tradition's most distinctive treasures in the exploration of revealed truth. 1 Pet 3:15), the concern of fundamental theology will be to justify and expound the relationship between faith and philosophical thought. Fides et ratio 1. Kreiner, Armin (2016): Fides et ratio. Here the words of the Book of Deuteronomy are pertinent: “This commandment which I command you is not too hard for you, neither is it far off. Surveying the situation today, we see that the problems of other times have returned, but in a new key. Once reason successfully intuits and formulates the first universal principles of being and correctly draws from them conclusions which are coherent both logically and ethically, then it may be called right reason or, as the ancients called it, orthós logos, recta ratio. Beyond this universality, however, people seek an absolute which might give to all their searching a meaning and an answer—something ultimate, which might serve as the ground of all things. Fides et Ratio, Pope John Paul II wrote, Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a … The term was first used with reference to aesthetic, social and technological phenomena. The Constitution Dei Verbum puts it eloquently: “After speaking in many places and varied ways through the prophets, God 'last of all in these days has spoken to us by his Son' (Heb 1:1-2). Recalling the teaching of Saint Paul (cf. 1. By the same token, reason which is unrelated to an adult faith is not prompted to turn its gaze to the newness and radicality of being. Step by step, then, we are assembling the terms of the question. For the sacred author, the task of searching for the truth was not without the strain which comes once the limits of reason are reached. Our age has been termed by some thinkers the age of “postmodernity”. Neither suffering nor violent death could ever lead them to abandon the truth which they have discovered in the encounter with Christ. But because of the disobedience by which man and woman chose to set themselves in full and absolute autonomy in relation to the One who had created them, this ready access to God the Creator diminished. However, some scholars working in these fields tend to stop short at the question of how reality is understood and expressed, without going further to see whether reason can discover its essence. 106. From the moment when, through the Paschal Mystery, she received the gift of the ultimate truth about human life, the Church has made her pilgrim way along the paths of the world to proclaim that Jesus Christ is “the way, and the truth, and the life” (Jn 14:6). Evangelium vitae | Otherwise there would be no guarantee that it would remain oriented to truth and that it was moving towards truth by way of a process governed by reason. Sundered from that truth, individuals are at the mercy of caprice, and their state as person ends up being judged by pragmatic criteria based essentially upon experimental data, in the mistaken belief that technology must dominate all. From all these truths, the mind is led to acknowledge the existence of a truly propaedeutic path to faith, one which can lead to the acceptance of Revelation without in any way compromising the principles and autonomy of the mind itself.90, Similarly, fundamental theology should demonstrate the profound compatibility that exists between faith and its need to find expression by way of human reason fully free to give its assent. There are various reasons for this disenchantment. Der Thomismus bleibt ein vorbildliches Konzept, wird jedoch nicht als einzig möglicher Denkweg angesehen. Seminars. 84. One thing however is certain: the currents of thought which claim to be postmodern merit appropriate attention. Bar 3:38), so that he may invite and take them into communion with himself. 59. The practice of philosophy and attendance at philosophical schools seemed to the first Christians more of a disturbance than an opportunity. 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