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501 7, 81 | stimulating philosophy to conform to its proper nature. In
502 2, 21 | the Chosen People had to confront and to which they had to
503 4, 43 | a freedom of spirit in confronting new problems, the intellectual
504 Int, 1 | them in the writings of Confucius and Lao-Tze, and in the
505 4, 37 | gnosticism. It was easy to confuse philosophy—understood as
506 6, 72 | originality of Indian thought be confused with the idea that a particular
507 5, 49 | the seed of serious error, confusing the pure and simple faith
508 7, 80 | together in mutuality without confusion of any kind is revealed.97~
509 5, 52(59) | Eugenio Bautain ex mandato S. Cong. Episcoporum et Religiosorum
510 7, 98 | Such an outlook is quite congenial to an individualist ethic,
511 4, 44 | comes to know by way of connaturality; it presupposes faith and
512 4, 43 | to do theology. In this connection, I would recall what my
513 4, 44(48) | septem dona Spiritus Sancti connumeratur”.~
514 2, 18 | is the fruit of personal conquest; a third rule is grounded
515 6, 70 | nature, as we saw earlier in considering the Wisdom literature and
516 4, 47 | in some ways it has been consigned to a wholly marginal role.
517 7, 88 | must be noted, scientism consigns all that has to do with
518 5, 56 | of consensus and not of a consonance between intellect and objective
519 4, 42 | reason becomes even more conspicuous under the impulse of Saint
520 5, 52(56) | Cf. Synod of Constantinople, DS 403.~
521 2, 19 | cycles of the year and the constellations of the stars, the natures
522 5, 49 | conscious of this as its “constitutive status” cannot but respect
523 2, 22 | and what was evil, but was constrained to appeal to a higher source.
524 4, 41 | reason, freed from external constraints, could find its way out
525 7, 95 | conditioned by history and constricted in other ways, but the human
526 1, 15 | immanentist habit of mind and the constrictions of a technocratic logic.
527 6, 73 | theology and philosophy is best construed as a circle. Theology's
528 1, 15 | neither the product nor the consummation of an argument devised by
529 4, 43 | allow Christianity to be contaminated neither by secular philosophy
530 1, 10 | 10. Contemplating Jesus as revealer, the Fathers
531 Int, 6 | can both restore to our contemporaries a genuine trust in their
532 1, 14 | indeed, it impels reason continually to extend the range of its
533 4, 43 | argued; hence there can be no contradiction between them.44~More radically,
534 Conc, 101 | respective insights have contributed richly to the progress of
535 6, 76 | another of faith's specific contributions: the Christian proclamation
536 5, 49 | clearly and strongly when controversial philosophical opinions threaten
537 3, 24 | eye, and he took this as a convenient starting-point to establish
538 7, 81 | action, leading them to converge towards a final goal and
539 4, 41 | Recognition of the points of convergence did not blind them to the
540 5, 62 | universities of Germany. Conversely, the dismantling of this
541 3, 32 | lengthy arguments in order to convince. The martyrs stir in us
542 3, 29 | the truth of these answers convinces is that they are no different
543 5, 56 | becomes the convinced and convincing advocate of reason.~
544 2, 23 | the First Letter to the Corinthians poses the dilemma in a radical
545 5, 51 | for self-criticism, the correction of errors and the extension
546 4, 36 | Greek religion, like most cosmic religions, was polytheistic,
547 2, 17 | sum of them! If I try to count them, they are more than
548 5, 52 | Catholics felt it their duty to counter various streams of modern
549 4, 39 | certainly outstanding. In countering the attacks launched by
550 3, 31 | could assess critically the countless scientific findings upon
551 6, 72 | China, Japan and the other countries of Asia, as also for the
552 6, 74 | and the word of God in the courageous research pursued by more
553 3 | CHAPTER III - INTELLEGO UT CREDAM~
554 2 | CHAPTER II - CREDO UT INTELLEGAM~
555 6, 71 | both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians, we hear them
556 4, 38 | contrary. That is why the criticism of Celsus—that Christians
557 7, 92(109)| only with the scandalum Crucis, but also with everything
558 6, 66 | history of salvation, which culminates in the person of Jesus Christ
559 4, 36 | to the myths and mystery cults notions more respectful
560 4, 43(45) | Theologiae, I, 1, 8 ad 2: “cum enim gratia non tollat naturam
561 5, 55 | possibility of belief in God. One currently widespread symptom of this
562 5, 62 | is not by chance that the curriculum of theological studies is
563 Int, 1 | themselves”.~Moreover, a cursory glance at ancient history
564 7, 90(106)| truth, frees man from what curtails, diminishes and as it were
565 6, 70 | people, its language and its customs, but extended to all as
566 2, 23 | revealed wisdom disrupts the cycle of our habitual patterns
567 2, 19 | activity of the elements... the cycles of the year and the constellations
568 6, 71 | parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome,
569 5, 60(84) | Apostolic Exhortation Pastores Dabo Vobis (25 March 1992), 52:
570 3, 26 | about life's meaning. The daily experience of suffering—
571 6, 75 | philosophy only does itself damage, since this is to preclude
572 4, 46 | faith as alienating and damaging to the development of a
573 2, 21 | which until then he had not dared to hope became a possibility.~
574 Int, 5 | gaze to the heights, not daring to rise to the truth of
575 3, 30 | that question, one last datum of philosophy needs to be
576 1, 11 | God 'last of all in these days has spoken to us by his
577 1, 11 | glorious Resurrection from the dead and finally his sending
578 Int, 4 | and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little
579 Int, 4 | such cases, we are clearly dealing with a “philosophical pride”
580 5, 60 | inspiration. The chapter deals with the value of the human
581 6, 79 | of Revelation can never debase the discoveries and legitimate
582 4, 43 | is neither annulled nor debased in assenting to the contents
583 2, 23 | the learned? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God
584 1, 8 | certain, since God neither deceives nor wishes to deceive.6~
585 Int, 1 | given to these questions decides the direction which people
586 3, 32 | we already feel and they declare what we would like to have
587 5, 62(87) | Conciliorum Oecumenicorum Decreta, 1991, 605-606.~
588 7, 96(112)| on principles and notions deduced from a true knowledge of
589 7, 96(112)| things. In the process of deduction, this knowledge, like a
590 5, 55 | An example of this is the deep-seated distrust of reason which
591 7, 96 | especially concerned to deepen the understanding of the
592 6, 72 | human spirit, the legitimate defense of the uniqueness and originality
593 7, 80 | stems not from any material deficiency, but is a wound inflicted
594 3, 28 | fear and anxiety. One may define the human being, therefore,
595 7, 80 | meaning of life reach its defining moment. The intimate essence
596 7, 80(97) | of Chalcedon, Symbolum, Definitio: DS 302.~
597 7, 96 | language used in Conciliar definitions. This is a question which
598 1, 9 | to reveal in history and definitively through his Son, Jesus Christ (
599 3, 30 | truths which are to some degree grounded in philosophy,
600 5, 52 | negative. The censures were delivered even-handedly: on the one
601 Int, 1 | on the temple portal at Delphi, as testimony to a basic
602 2, 23 | authentic critique of those who delude themselves that they possess
603 4, 38 | question of life's meaning that delving into the philosophers seemed
604 7, 91 | delicate question of the demarcation of the different historical
605 6, 78 | Revelation without ever demeaning the venture proper to reason.~
606 7, 91 | and woman may live as a demiurge, single-handedly and completely
607 7, 89 | support for a concept of democracy which is not grounded upon
608 1, 13 | himself”.14 This brief but dense statement points to a fundamental
609 7, 80 | exceptional philosophical density. Christians have come to
610 7, 96(112)| so that it is wrong to depart from them”: Encyclical Letter
611 5, 53 | not only in their point of departure, but also in their object”.64
612 7, 80 | would deny the essential dependence on God of every creature—
613 1, 13(15) | human beings are totally dependent on God as their creator
614 5, 55 | danger inherent in seeking to derive the truth of Sacred Scripture
615 2, 16 | the sacred author comes to describe the wise man, he portrays
616 2, 22 | human condition vividly described by the Book of Genesis when
617 1, 10 | s Revelation in history, describing it in these terms: “In this
618 3, 24(22) | Ut te semper desiderando quaererent et inveniendo
619 2, 16 | vanished. As if by special design, the voices of Egypt and
620 6, 76 | adopted by philosophy is often designated as Christian philosophy.
621 7, 91 | different contexts, the term designates the emergence of a complex
622 2, 21 | understand the mysterious designs of God (cf. 30:1-6). Yet,
623 7, 91 | threats is the temptation to despair.~Even so, it remains true
624 1, 14 | completely, until finally, despairing of being able to find it,
625 2, 23 | God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that
626 4, 45 | forms of speculation, was destroyed by systems which espoused
627 7, 81 | and even become potential destroyer of the human race.98~The
628 1, 13 | it cannot ignore without destroying the very signs which it
629 6, 70 | the Paschal Mystery. Jesus destroys the walls of division and
630 5, 61 | problems which are more detailed and restricted, at times
631 7, 96(113)| cannot signify the truth in a determinate way, but can only offer
632 3, 27 | The answer we give will determine whether or not we think
633 7, 87 | truth of a philosophy is determined on the basis of its appropriateness
634 7, 81 | decisive critical factor which determines the foundations and limits
635 Conc, 105 | his Itinerarium Mentis in Deum invites the reader to recognize
636 1, 15 | the words of the Book of Deuteronomy are pertinent: “This commandment
637 Int, 5 | doctrines which tend to devalue even the truths which had
638 2, 23 | of a system of their own devising. The preaching of Christ
639 5, 57 | document of such authority devoted entirely to philosophy.
640 Conc, 105 | repentance, knowledge without devotion, research without the impulse
641 5, 54 | treated only if rightly diagnosed and because even in these
642 4, 46 | Resurrection of Jesus, into dialectical structures which could be
643 4, 44 | omne verum a quocumque dicatur a Spiritu Sancto est) 50
644 3, 34(29) | divine Word, the first as dictated by the Holy Spirit, the
645 1, 15 | finds an echo in the famous dictum of the holy philosopher
646 6, 70 | difficulties created by cultural differences. A passage of Saint Paul'
647 1, 13 | to their own freedom. Put differently, freedom is not realized
648 2, 22 | that reason should without difficulty reach beyond the sensory
649 Conc, 102(124)| Declaration on Religious Freedom Dignitatis Humanae, 1-3.~
650 2, 23 | the Corinthians poses the dilemma in a radical way. The crucified
651 7, 89 | excludes the great ethical dilemmas and the existential analyses
652 7, 90(106)| man from what curtails, diminishes and as it were breaks off
653 2, 16 | cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and
654 Int, 2 | For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face.
655 4, 40 | the Cappadocian Fathers, Dionysius called the Areopagite and
656 2, 16 | plans the way, but the Lord directs the steps” (16:9). This
657 4, 40 | but all of them left him disappointed. It was when he encountered
658 4, 38 | sophistry impotent and in disarming those who betray truth and
659 4, 46 | systems which have been disastrous for humanity.~In the field
660 7, 82 | philosophy which does not disavow the possibility of a knowledge
661 6, 70 | Christ's mandate to his disciples to go out everywhere, “even
662 6, 65 | the specific demands of disciplined thought.~Philosophy contributes
663 1, 7 | encounter, unique in kind, which discloses a mystery hidden for long
664 4, 41 | In fact they succeeded in disclosing completely all that remained
665 2, 22 | data of the senses, but, by discoursing on the data provided by
666 6, 79 | Revelation can never debase the discoveries and legitimate autonomy
667 Int, 6 | value and the possibility of discovering the real meaning of life
668 6, 73 | enriched, because reason discovers new and unsuspected horizons.~
669 7, 88 | Critical epistemology has discredited such a claim, but now we
670 5, 54 | theories provoke a more discriminating discussion and evaluation
671 6, 66 | in fact be impossible to discuss theological issues such
672 7, 91 | 91. In discussing these currents of thought,
673 5, 58 | philosophical and theological discussions of the day. The most influential
674 5, 55 | speculative theology, and in disdain for the classical philosophy
675 5, 54 | theories well, not only because diseases are properly treated only
676 5, 61 | various reasons for this disenchantment. First, there is the distrust
677 4, 38 | and untrue. Their initial disinterest is to be explained on other
678 7, 88 | guise of scientism, which dismisses values as mere products
679 7, 80 | a wound inflicted by the disordered exercise of human freedom.
680 6, 71 | liberation from all the disorders caused by sin and is, at
681 7, 98 | conscience of people is disoriented. In the Encyclical Letter
682 6, 72 | are the same in the most disparate cultures. The second, which
683 6, 67 | reason, it can certainly not dispense with it. At the same time,
684 1, 13 | the intellect and the will display their spiritual nature,
685 5, 61 | to note with surprise and displeasure that this lack of interest
686 Int, 3 | and women have at their disposal an array of resources for
687 7, 85 | and that it is not ours to dispose of at will. Precisely by
688 4, 38 | purity of life, it is well disposed towards wisdom and does
689 5, 62 | is the influence of the Disputationes Metaphysicae of Francisco
690 7, 84 | but in so doing they also disqualify themselves. Faith clearly
691 5, 62 | Consider, for instance, the disregard of modern thought and culture
692 2, 23 | depth of revealed wisdom disrupts the cycle of our habitual
693 7, 87 | evaluated as such despite the distance of space and time.~In theological
694 7, 91 | have failed to make crucial distinctions and have called into question
695 6, 74 | Christian theologians who also distinguished themselves as great philosophers,
696 6, 67 | God, the possibility of distinguishing divine Revelation from other
697 1, 14 | by filling my mind, it distracted me from other problems from
698 4, 38 | first Christians more of a disturbance than an opportunity. For
699 1, 9 | God which, unless they are divinely revealed, cannot be known”.7
700 5, 54(67) | Pius XI, Encyclical Letter Divini Redemptoris (19 March 1937):
701 4, 39 | immortality of the soul, the divinization of man and the origin of
702 4, 36 | polytheistic, even to the point of divinizing natural things and phenomena.
703 7, 92 | it possible to overcome divisions and to journey together
704 Conc, 105 | surrender to joy, action divorced from religion, learning
705 4, 44(48) | 1, 6: “Praeterea, haec doctrina per studium acquiritur.
706 7, 99 | life, between event and doctrinal truth, and above all between
707 5, 60 | number of other magisterial documents in order to guarantee a
708 3, 26(26) | Apostolic Letter Salvifici Doloris (11 February 1984), 9: AAS
709 5, 54(66) | Encyclical Letter Pascendi Dominici Gregis (8 September 1907):
710 7, 92(109)| In the Encyclical Letter Dominum et Vivificantem, commenting
711 4, 44(48) | habetur, unde inter septem dona Spiritus Sancti connumeratur”.~
712 | done
713 2, 23 | to purely human logic is doomed to failure. “Where is the
714 2, 16 | windows and listens at her doors. He camps near her house
715 3, 26 | of Job in order to have doubts about life's meaning. The
716 7, 81 | fruitless. Indeed, still more dramatically, in this maelstrom of data
717 3, 28 | s search. Truth can also drown in a welter of other concerns.
718 7, 92 | Today, too, theology faces a dual task. On the one hand, it
719 3, 35 | light of reason. It is this duality alone which allows us to
720 7, 82 | individual, even if guilty of duplicity and mendacity, can know
721 Int, 5 | answers to these questions has dwindled.~
722 7, 92 | their work corresponds “to a dynamism found in the faith itself”
723 5, 56 | for ultimate truth, the eagerness to search for it or the
724 4, 36 | the universe find their earliest expression in poetry; and
725 Conc, 105 | philosophy both in seminaries and ecclesiastical faculties must not be neglected. 130
726 7, 97 | is said nowadays, or an ecclesiology developed solely on the
727 1, 15 | 14). This text finds an echo in the famous dictum of
728 1, 13 | realities sublime”.16 He is echoed by the philosopher Pascal: “
729 4, 44(50) | I-II, 109, 1 ad 1, which echoes the well known phrase of
730 Conc, 104 | pressing issues facing humanity—ecology, peace and the co-existence
731 7, 98 | challenges in the social, economic, political and scientific
732 6, 66 | and Triune God and of the economy of salvation, both as a
733 1, 13(17) | Pensées, 789 (ed. L. Brunschvicg).~
734 2, 22 | human being in the Garden of Eden, in the middle of which
735 Int, 6 | through life to the very edge of the abyss without knowing
736 6, 74 | Maritain, Étienne Gilson and Edith Stein and, in an Eastern
737 6, 77 | research a reason formed and educated to concept and argument.
738 Int, 4 | reading of all reality. In effect, every philosophical system,
739 7, 98 | in a more appropriate and effective way.~
740 7, 92 | serve evangelization more effectively. How can we fail to recall
741 4, 47 | indirect consequences of its effects returning on himself. It
742 Conc, 106 | urge them to continue their efforts without ever abandoning
743 2, 16 | Greek philosopher or the Egyptian sage. Still less did the
744 5, 60(84) | the Participants of the Eighth International Thomistic
745 7, 94 | salvation. This truth is elaborated fully in the Church's constant
746 6, 64 | reflective and scientific elaboration of the understanding of
747 6, 71 | Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia,
748 4, 37 | tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe
749 6, 78 | of faith found the most elevated synthesis ever attained
750 2, 23 | about God. Reason cannot eliminate the mystery of love which
751 5, 55 | Sacred Scripture alone, thus eliminating the doctrine of the Church
752 4, 38 | the theme of truth. The elitism which had characterized
753 1, 11 | Constitution Dei Verbum puts it eloquently: “After speaking in many
754 | else
755 1, 14 | seeking; at other times it eluded my thought completely, until
756 6, 79 | virtue of the splendour emanating from subsistent Being itself,
757 3, 34 | natural and revealed, is embodied in a living and personal
758 7, 94 | text. Human language thus embodies the language of God, who
759 2, 16 | prejudice, is that they embody not only the faith of Israel,
760 6, 70 | transformed once they had embraced the faith. With the richness
761 7, 91 | the term designates the emergence of a complex of new factors
762 6, 74 | in an Eastern context, eminent scholars such as Vladimir
763 7, 88 | as mere products of the emotions and rejects the notion of
764 5, 60 | theological studies. I have myself emphasized several times the importance
765 6, 66 | of moral theology, which employ concepts such as the moral
766 7, 96(112)| notions have not only been employed by the Ecumenical Councils,
767 6, 75 | obeying its own rules and employing the powers of reason alone.
768 3, 32 | a hearing and to invite emulation. This is why their word
769 5, 62 | influenced, promoted and enabled much of the development
770 7, 96(112)| Problema (October 1989): Enchiridion Vaticanum 11, 2717-2811.~
771 Conc, 106 | admiration and in offering encouragement to these brave pioneers
772 Conc, 105 | particularly to theologians, encouraging them to pay special attention
773 6, 74 | to these I intend not to endorse every aspect of their thought,
774 6, 67 | already perceives. Revelation endows these truths with their
775 4, 48 | other is impoverished and enfeebled. Deprived of what Revelation
776 7, 80 | an understanding of the enigma of human existence, the
777 4, 43(45) | Theologiae, I, 1, 8 ad 2: “cum enim gratia non tollat naturam
778 1, 9 | upon God's testimony and enjoying the supernatural assistance
779 4, 47 | utilitarian ends, towards enjoyment or power.~In my first Encyclical
780 7, 96(112)| knowledge, like a star, gave enlightenment to the human mind through
781 1, 11 | Son, the eternal Word who enlightens all people, so that he might
782 1, 14 | specific field in which it can enquire and understand, restricted
783 6, 72 | their faith, in order to enrich Christian thought. In this
784 3, 26 | to reason are enough to ensure that a question as dramatic
785 7, 91 | dramatic experience has ensured the collapse of rationalist
786 Conc, 103 | new millennium seems to entail, and which affect in a particular
787 1, 12 | have imagined: the Eternal enters time, the Whole lies hidden
788 4, 46 | the human person and the entirety of the person's life. Further
789 1, 13 | always considered the act of entrusting oneself to God to be a moment
790 7, 92 | ultimate truth which Revelation entrusts to it, never content to
791 7, 98 | of life and the natural environment, in a more appropriate and
792 6, 70 | letter to the Christians of Ephesus helps us to understand how
793 4, 36 | discussion with “certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers” (
794 5, 52(59) | Eugenio Bautain iussu sui Episcopi subscriptae (8 September
795 5, 52(59) | Bautain ex mandato S. Cong. Episcoporum et Religiosorum subscriptae (
796 7, 90 | turn makes it possible to erase from the countenance of
797 4, 41(40) | VII, 9: SC 46, 98: “Quid ergo Athenis et Hierosolymis?
798 7, 82 | that the Catholic tradition erred when it took certain texts
799 7, 84(103)| Lateran Ecumenical Council, De Errore Abbatis Ioachim, II: DS
800 5, 52(62) | the Holy Office, Decree Errores Ontologistarum (18 September
801 1, 14 | be conceived (non solum es quo maius cogitari nequit),
802 4, 45 | destroyed by systems which espoused the cause of rational knowledge
803 4, 42 | comprehendit incomprehensibile esse) how supernal wisdom knows
804 Int, 5 | pragmatic criteria based essentially upon experimental data,
805 4, 44 | dicatur a Spiritu Sancto est) 50 Saint Thomas was impartial
806 3, 34 | one and the same God who establishes and guarantees the intelligibility
807 4, 38 | Greek philosophy in high esteem after his conversion, Justin
808 7, 98 | congenial to an individualist ethic, wherein each individual
809 6, 74 | Rosmini, Jacques Maritain, Étienne Gilson and Edith Stein and,
810 Int, 3 | According to its Greek etymology, the term philosophy means “
811 Int, 1 | and in the tragedies of Euripides and Sophocles, as they do
812 6, 69 | philosophy of Greek and Eurocentric provenance. Others still,
813 3, 28 | Yet, for all that they may evade it, the truth still influences
814 3, 26 | question of meaning cannot be evaded.26 Moreover, the first absolutely
815 Conc, 103(125)| Cf. Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi (8 December 1975),
816 3, 24 | Acts of the Apostles, the Evangelist Luke tells of Paul's coming
817 7, 89(105)| Paul II, Encyclical Letter Evangelium Vitae (25 March 1995), 69:
818 1, 14 | of the poor children of Eve, far from God, what did
819 5, 52 | censures were delivered even-handedly: on the one hand, fideism 59
820 Conc, 101(123)| own personal ideas, but everybody must be aware of being in
821 5, 54 | interpretations linked to evolutionism, existentialism and historicism.
822 Conc, 103 | of theology's demands and evolves in harmony with faith is
823 Int, 2(1) | it and seeking the most exact understanding of it, in
824 4, 45 | separation. As a result of the exaggerated rationalism of certain thinkers,
825 4, 40 | remained for centuries the most exalted form of philosophical and
826 3, 31 | based? Who could personally examine the flow of information
827 2, 16 | near her and so finds an excellent resting-place; he places
828 7, 80 | and the world which has exceptional philosophical density. Christians
829 7, 87 | light of the tradition. By exchanging relevance for truth, this
830 2, 17 | in this direction when it exclaims: “It is the glory of God
831 7, 96 | of many concepts does not exclude that their meaning is often
832 3, 34(29) | second as a very faithful executor of the commands of God',
833 5, 55 | exegesis which enables the exegete, together with the whole
834 4, 36 | philosophers” (17:18); and exegetical analysis of his speech at
835 Conc, 100 | In addition, philosophy exercises a powerful, though not always
836 1, 14 | which the human mind cannot exhaust but can only receive and
837 6, 70 | cannot however claim to be exhaustive. From the time the Gospel
838 5, 52(61) | Cf. Pius IX, Brief Eximiam Tuam (15 June 1857), DS
839 4, 40 | because a demonstration existed but could not be understood
840 5, 54 | linked to evolutionism, existentialism and historicism. He made
841 7, 81 | today, because the immense expansion of humanity's technical
842 7, 92 | In line with the keen expectation of those who sincerely love
843 Conc, 104 | commitment, able to discern the expectations, the points of openness
844 5, 55 | metaphysics”. Philosophy is expected to rest content with more
845 3, 30 | evidence or are confirmed by experimentation. This is the mode of truth
846 5, 60 | created in the image of God, explains the dignity and superiority
847 4, 42 | find meaning, to discover explanations which might allow everyone
848 2, 21 | that God has created them “explorers” (cf. Qoh 1:13), whose mission
849 4, 44 | upon Revelation and which explores the contents of faith, entering
850 2, 17 | there falls the task of exploring truth with their reason,
851 4, 48 | taken side-tracks which expose it to the danger of losing
852 6, 65 | this has been gradually expounded in Sacred Tradition, Sacred
853 6, 66 | knowledge. The intellectus fidei expounds this truth, not only in
854 5, 61 | of thinking, an array of expressions of popular wisdom; and this
855 3, 33 | the most significant and expressive human acts.~It must not
856 1, 14 | impels reason continually to extend the range of its knowledge
857 6, 70 | language and its customs, but extended to all as a heritage from
858 6, 76 | purely rational method, yet extending their research to new aspects
859 5, 51 | correction of errors and the extension of the too restricted terms
860 6, 69 | above all the sciences, the extraordinary advances of which in recent
861 7, 86 | to the task at hand. An extreme form of eclecticism appears
862 7, 81 | seem to comprise the very fabric of life, many people wonder
863 4, 40 | ordered to believe many fabulous and absurd myths impossible
864 Conc, 104 | the most pressing issues facing humanity—ecology, peace
865 7, 88 | way for pure and simple facticity. Science would thus be poised
866 7, 91 | emergence of a complex of new factors which, widespread and powerful
867 7, 83 | and truth do transcend the factual and the empirical, and to
868 7, 91 | certitude, several authors have failed to make crucial distinctions
869 Int, 6 | renounce this task without failing in the ministry which we
870 7, 92 | unchangeable doctrine, always to be faithfully respected, must be understood
871 5, 49 | has taken wrong turns and fallen into error. It is neither
872 2, 17 | to men and women there falls the task of exploring truth
873 1, 15 | text finds an echo in the famous dictum of the holy philosopher
874 7, 88 | knowledge to the realm of mere fantasy. In the past, the same idea
875 7, 86 | scientifically. The rigorous and far-reaching study of philosophical doctrines,
876 3, 27 | questioning. Hypotheses may fascinate, but they do not satisfy.
877 4, 41 | perhaps succumbing to the fascination of the other. It happened
878 2, 16 | camps near her house and fastens his tent-peg to her walls;
879 2, 16 | including history and the fate of peoples, are realities
880 4, 45 | learning became more and more a fateful separation. As a result
881 Conc, 108 | s, on 14 September, the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross,
882 2, 16 | sound again and certain features common to the cultures of
883 3, 26(26) | Letter Salvifici Doloris (11 February 1984), 9: AAS 76 (1984),
884 4, 42 | videndum factus sum; et nondum feci propter quod factus sum)”.42
885 6, 71 | ways of life. Cultures are fed by the communication of
886 4, 48 | reason, faith has stressed feeling and experience, and so run
887 Conc, 104 | share our faith. The current ferment in philosophy demands of
888 6, 79(96) | Idem, De Fide, Spe et Caritate, 7: CCL
889 5, 55 | widespread symptom of this fideistic tendency is a “biblicism”
890 [Title] | Fides et ratio~
891 6, 74 | mention, in a Western context, figures such as John Henry Newman,
892 1, 14 | that thought because, by filling my mind, it distracted me
893 Int, 4 | principles of non-contradiction, finality and causality, as well as
894 3, 33(28) | which express the urgency of finding a reason for existence,
895 Conc, 106 | even when it concerns a finite reality of the world or
896 1, 14 | restricted only by its finiteness before the infinite mystery
897 4, 42 | form of knowledge which is fired more and more with love
898 2, 18 | really he is incapable of fixing his gaze on the things that
899 5, 60 | Gaudium et Spes, and the flaws of its philosophical vision
900 4, 46 | made, because everything is fleeting and provisional.~
901 Conc, 105(128)| Prologus, 4: Opera Omnia, Florence, 1891, vol. V, 296.~
902 6, 74 | Vladimir S. Soloviev, Pavel A. Florensky, Petr Chaadaev and Vladimir
903 6, 71 | values, and they survive and flourish insofar as they remain open
904 5, 58 | impetus. Historical studies flourished, resulting in a rediscovery
905 2, 16 | mind to discover in the flux of events the workings of
906 4, 45 | mistrust, which led some to focus more on faith and others
907 Int, 5 | clearly has the great merit of focusing attention upon man. From
908 Conc, 104 | between Christians and the followers of other religions and all
909 3, 25 | will, the human person sets foot upon the path to happiness
910 1, 15 | dwells the truth” (Noli foras ire, in te ipsum redi. In
911 6, 71 | of its native riches and force it to adopt forms which
912 6, 77 | completely, they would be forced to master on their own the
913 1, 11 | I feel bound to restate forcefully that “in Christianity time
914 2, 16 | without faith ever being foreign to the process. Faith intervenes
915 1, 11 | our life is even now a foretaste of the fulfilment of time
916 Conc, 108 | her heart, has shared it forever with all the world.~Given
917 1, 12 | of the Son of God we see forged the enduring and definitive
918 4, 37 | philosophy, one should not forget how cautiously Christians
919 5, 52 | speculations,57 without forgetting the more systematic pronouncements
920 Int, 6 | great responsibility of forming thought and culture; and
921 6, 66 | words, through concepts formulated in a critical and universally
922 5, 51 | unity of truth, even if its formulations are shaped by history and
923 2, 19 | takes a significant step forward. Making his own the thought
924 6, 71 | every culture and help to foster whatever is implicit in
925 Int, 5 | fields of knowledge and fostering the development of culture
926 7, 83 | something absolute, ultimate and foundational in its search for truth.
927 5, 55 | be philosophically well founded are taken as normative for
928 7, 84(103)| Cf. Fourth Lateran Ecumenical Council,
929 4, 43 | reason is set free from the fragility and limitations deriving
930 1, 13 | the face of God is always fragmentary and impaired by the limits
931 7, 84 | we fail to see in such a frame of mind the confirmation
932 5, 62 | Disputationes Metaphysicae of Francisco Suárez, which found its
933 5, 55(72) | which have no more than a fraudulent semblance of truth”: ibid.,
934 7, 90(106)| freedom based on truth, frees man from what curtails,
935 4, 36 | the Areopagus has revealed frequent allusions to popular beliefs
936 6, 72 | find in this inheritance fresh cues for fruitful dialogue
937 3, 24 | God. The Liturgy of Good Friday recalls this powerfully
938 1, 10 | speaks to men and women as friends (cf. Ex 33:11; Jn 15:14-
939 Int, 4 | them to discover ever new frontiers of knowledge. Without wonder,
940 6, 74 | 74. The fruitfulness of this relationship is
941 7, 81 | meaning difficult and often fruitless. Indeed, still more dramatically,
942 7, 98 | word of God. In order to fulfil its mission, moral theology
943 6, 67 | these truths with their fullest meaning, directing them
944 5, 60(84) | Catholic Education, Ratio Fundamentalis Institutionis Sacerdotalis (
945 6, 79 | which theology—and more fundamentally still, the word of God itself—
946 Conc, 108 | in giving her assent to Gabriel's word, Mary lost nothing
947 6, 72 | cannot abandon what she has gained from her inculturation in
948 5, 55 | a certain rationalism is gaining ground, especially when
949 1, 11 | the “fullness of time” (Gal 4:4); and two thousand years
950 6, 71 | all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear,
951 5, 62 | arrangement has created serious gaps in both priestly formation
952 2, 22 | placed the human being in the Garden of Eden, in the middle of
953 3, 33(28) | the answer to them is the gauge of the depth of his engagement
954 4, 38 | race, social status and gender, Christianity proclaimed
955 Int, 3 | an array of resources for generating greater knowledge of truth
956 7, 85 | by the Popes for several generations and reaffirmed by the Second
957 4, 39 | Revelation what had signified a generic doctrine about the gods
958 2, 22 | described by the Book of Genesis when it tells us that God
959 6, 69(92) | s Missionary Activity Ad Gentes, 22.~
960 5, 62 | Lutheran universities of Germany. Conversely, the dismantling
961 4, 44 | The wisdom named among the gifts of the Holy Spirit is distinct
962 6, 74 | Jacques Maritain, Étienne Gilson and Edith Stein and, in
963 6, 74 | recent thinkers, among whom I gladly mention, in a Western context,
964 Int, 1 | themselves”.~Moreover, a cursory glance at ancient history shows
965 Conc, 104 | which there shines even a glimmer of the truth of Christ,
966 Conc, 101 | philosophy which has thus glimpsed new vistas of further meanings
967 4, 37 | one example of which is gnosticism. It was easy to confuse
968 7, 86 | philosophical work.~The first goes by the name of eclecticism,
969 1, 14 | aiming for and how far have I got? What did I aspire to and
970 2, 18 | and provident love in the governance of the world reason must
971 7, 93 | understanding of God's kenosis, a grand and mysterious truth for
972 Conc, 107 | But this can never be the grandeur of the human being, who
973 7, 98 | there is a tendency to grant to the individual conscience
974 6, 66 | this truth, not only in grasping the logical and conceptual
975 4, 43(45) | I, 1, 8 ad 2: “cum enim gratia non tollat naturam sed perficiat”.~
976 5, 52(61) | 1857), DS 2828-2831; Brief Gravissimas Inter (11 December 1862),
977 7, 91 | this century, one of our greatest threats is the temptation
978 2, 19 | can rise to God: “From the greatness and beauty of created things
979 6, 72 | inculturation in the world of Greco-Latin thought. To reject this
980 5, 54(66) | Letter Pascendi Dominici Gregis (8 September 1907): ASS
981 6, 74 | among whom at least Saint Gregory of Nazianzus and Saint Augustine
982 4, 45 | certain thinkers, positions grew more radical and there emerged
983 2, 23 | human argumentation comes to grief. The true key-point, which
984 3, 24 | search for God and perhaps grope for him and find him—though
985 6, 77 | philosophers. Either way, the grounding principles of autonomy which
986 4, 38 | to be explained on other grounds. The encounter with the
987 5, 55 | certain individuals and groups, but convictions so widespread
988 6, 77 | every science rightly wants guaranteed would be seriously threatened.~
989 3, 34 | God who establishes and guarantees the intelligibility and
990 1, 13 | is God himself who is the guarantor of that truth. They can
991 4, 37 | the Colossians on their guard: “See to it that no-one
992 5, 50 | truth of which she is the guardian. In making this discernment,
993 6, 72 | providential plan of God who guides his Church down the paths
994 6, 66 | personal responsibility and guilt, which are in part defined
995 7, 82 | the individual, even if guilty of duplicity and mendacity,
996 4, 44(48) | Sapientia autem per infusionem habetur, unde inter septem dona
997 1, 15 | pressures of an immanentist habit of mind and the constrictions
998 1, 15 | redi. In interiore homine habitat veritas).21~These considerations
999 2, 23 | disrupts the cycle of our habitual patterns of thought, which
1000 4, 44(48) | Cf. I, 1, 6: “Praeterea, haec doctrina per studium acquiritur.