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1001 4, 41(40) | De Praescriptione Haereticorum, VII, 9: SC 46, 98: “Quid
1002 6, 75 | alone. Although seriously handicapped by the inherent weakness
1003 4, 47 | result of the work of his hands and, even more so, of the
1004 7, 92(109)| words, was just about to happen. Later however it becomes
1005 2, 16 | loves and seeks the truth: “Happy the man who meditates on
1006 7, 92(109)| however it becomes clear hat this 'guiding into all the
1007 Conc, 108 | Seat of Wisdom, be a sure haven for all who devote their
1008 Bles | Venerable Brother Bishops, ~Health and the Apostolic Blessing!~
1009 5, 54 | and instill it in human hearts, cannot afford to ignore
1010 2, 16 | he is sheltered from the heat and he dwells in the shade
1011 4, 38 | philosophy is rightly called the hedge and the protective wall
1012 Conc, 108 | so too when philosophy heeds the summons of the Gospel'
1013 7, 87 | illustrating positions once held, but for the most part outmoded
1014 6, 74 | context, figures such as John Henry Newman, Antonio Rosmini,
1015 7, 95 | untenable; but the use of a hermeneutic open to the appeal of metaphysics
1016 7, 84 | current developments in hermeneutics and the analysis of language.
1017 4, 46 | rationality. They did not hesitate to present themselves as
1018 7, 82(99) | Saint Bonaventure, Coll. In Hex., 3, 8, 1.~
1019 1, 13 | it is that now appears, hiding in mystery realities sublime”.16
1020 4, 41(40) | 98: “Quid ergo Athenis et Hierosolymis? Quid academiae et ecclesiae?”.~
1021 3, 33(28) | person, because it is the highpoint of his rational nature.
1022 Conc, 108 | knowing, be freed of every hindrance by the intercession of the
1023 4, 40 | made flesh.39 The Bishop of Hippo succeeded in producing the
1024 7, 94 | statement of neutral facts, as historicist positivism would claim. 111
1025 7, 87 | was true in one period, historicists claim, may not be true in
1026 4, 38 | satisfying answer to the hitherto unresolved question of life'
1027 7, 92 | all-embracing authority which holds out to theology and philosophy
1028 Conc, 107 | enter the truth, to make a home under the shade of Wisdom
1029 Int, 1 | appear in the poetry of Homer and in the tragedies of
1030 Conc, 108(132)| trapeza”: Pseudo-Epiphanius, Homily in Praise of Holy Mary Mother
1031 1, 15 | ipsum redi. In interiore homine habitat veritas).21~These
1032 4, 43 | problems, the intellectual honesty of those who allow Christianity
1033 Conc, 104 | Source, nor those who are hostile to the Church and persecute
1034 6, 70 | broken down the wall of hostility” (2:13-14).~In the light
1035 2, 16 | doors. He camps near her house and fastens his tent-peg
1036 6, 70 | saints and members of the household of God” (Eph 2:19).~This
1037 Conc, 102(124)| Religious Freedom Dignitatis Humanae, 1-3.~
1038 4, 46 | various forms of atheistic humanism, expressed in philosophical
1039 Conc, 102 | human nature, the human and humanizing meaning of God's word also
1040 5, 50 | the truth”, fulfilling a humble but tenacious ministry of
1041 Conc, 100 | 100. More than a hundred years after the appearance
1042 2, 16 | secrets. He pursues her like a hunter and lies in wait on her
1043 3, 27 | end to all questioning. Hypotheses may fascinate, but they
1044 4, 44(50) | Ibid., I-II, 109, 1 ad 1, which echoes
1045 1, 9 | of Revelation are neither identical nor mutually exclusive: “
1046 2, 20 | therefore, the sacred author identifies the fear of God as the beginning
1047 Int, 4 | with it the temptation to identify one single stream with the
1048 3, 24 | full of statues of various idols. One altar in particular
1049 3, 33 | beset speculative research, ignores the teaching of the ancient
1050 7, 86 | which may be erroneous or ill-suited to the task at hand. An
1051 4, 38 | Celsus—that Christians were “illiterate and uncouth”31—is unfounded
1052 Conc, 108 | itself is a true parable illuminating the reflection contained
1053 4, 43 | upon and perfects reason. Illumined by faith, reason is set
1054 7, 90(106)| warning to avoid every kind of illusory freedom, every superficial
1055 7, 87 | archeological resource useful for illustrating positions once held, but
1056 1, 12 | itself could not even have imagined: the Eternal enters time,
1057 7, 80 | also a vision of man as imago Dei. This vision offers
1058 7, 81 | necessary today, because the immense expansion of humanity's
1059 3, 33 | believing, Christian faith immerses human beings in the order
1060 7, 99 | light of faith. The teaching imparted in catechesis helps to form
1061 4, 44 | est) 50 Saint Thomas was impartial in his love of truth. He
1062 2, 19 | their sinfulness place an impediment in the way.~
1063 Int, 6 | for their spirit.~I feel impelled to undertake this task above
1064 Conc, 106 | They should be open to the impelling questions which arise from
1065 1, 14 | ceaseless effort; indeed, it impels reason continually to extend
1066 5, 58 | Scholastic writers received new impetus. Historical studies flourished,
1067 Int, 6 | with renewed courage to implement the plan of salvation of
1068 4, 38 | women before God. One prime implication of this touched the theme
1069 6, 77 | the two sciences and the impossibility of their separation.~Were
1070 4, 38 | the attack of sophistry impotent and in disarming those who
1071 7, 88 | foundation. This leads to the impoverishment of human thought, which
1072 2, 22 | shackles in which it had imprisoned itself.~
1073 6, 76 | they are not of themselves inaccessible to reason. Among these truths
1074 7, 97 | to an approach which is inadequate, reductive and superficial
1075 5, 51 | enough to recognize the inalienable powers proper to it; but
1076 Conc, 106 | component parts, animate and inanimate, with their complex atomic
1077 4, 48 | become for all thinkers an incisive appeal to seek within themselves
1078 2, 22 | reasoning became distorted and inclined to falsehood (cf. Rom 1:
1079 4, 36 | broadened their view to include universal principles, they
1080 5, 57 | his insistence upon the incomparable value of the philosophy
1081 4, 42 | rationabiliter comprehendit incomprehensibile esse) how supernal wisdom
1082 7, 93 | human mind, which finds it inconceivable that suffering and death
1083 3, 28 | limitation of reason and the inconstancy of the heart often obscure
1084 7, 92 | support, stimulation and increase (cf. Eph 4:15).~To believe
1085 5, 58 | the works of Saint Thomas increased greatly, and many scholars
1086 7, 81 | proliferated that we face an increasing fragmentation of knowledge.
1087 Conc, 106 | universe as a whole and of the incredibly rich array of its component
1088 Conc, 105 | and binding obligation, incumbent on all, to contribute to
1089 5, 58 | Vatican Council was much indebted, were products of this revival
1090 Conc, 106 | are the distinctive and indelible mark of the human person.
1091 5, 52(60) | Sacred Congregation of the Index, Decree Theses contra Traditionalismum
1092 5, 57 | of philosophical enquiry, indicating as well particular paths
1093 7, 81 | easily lead to scepticism, indifference or to various forms of nihilism.~
1094 3, 25 | People cannot be genuinely indifferent to the question of whether
1095 5, 62 | modern philosophy, albeit indirectly. One telling example of
1096 5, 62 | kind of dialogue or to an indiscriminate acceptance of any kind of
1097 7, 91 | requestioning of claims once thought indisputable. In response, currents of
1098 7, 98 | is quite congenial to an individualist ethic, wherein each individual
1099 4, 42 | so incomprehensible and ineffable as that which is above all
1100 3, 26 | search for a full answer is inescapable. Each of us has both the
1101 3, 26 | fact that we exist, is the inevitability of our death. Given this
1102 4, 43 | faith with the supreme and inexorable demands of the supernatural
1103 3, 26 | array of facts which seem inexplicable to reason are enough to
1104 7, 80 | deficiency, but is a wound inflicted by the disordered exercise
1105 3, 31 | personally examine the flow of information which comes day after day
1106 4, 43 | attained by way of free and informed choice.46~This is why the
1107 4, 41 | to the absolute, and they infused it with the richness drawn
1108 4, 44(48) | acquiritur. Sapientia autem per infusionem habetur, unde inter septem
1109 3, 24 | ancestor he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and he
1110 6, 72 | cultures and will find in this inheritance fresh cues for fruitful
1111 7, 81 | then it could soon prove inhuman and even become potential
1112 3, 26 | 26. The truth comes initially to the human being as a
1113 Int, 5 | following upon similar initiatives by my Predecessors, I wish
1114 1, 11 | among them and tell them the innermost realities about God (cf.
1115 1, 12 | pain, the suffering of the innocent and death, if not in the
1116 7, 88 | seems boundless, given its inroads into different cultures
1117 Conc, 102 | of these profound needs, inscribed by God in human nature,
1118 3, 24 | among them an altar with the inscription, 'To an unknown god'. What
1119 5, 52(57) | 1747, 176-179; Urban VIII, Inscrutabilis Iudiciorum (1 April 1631):
1120 3, 26 | after-life or not. It is not insignificant that the death of Socrates
1121 4, 45 | research. Although they insisted upon the organic link between
1122 4, 48 | why I make this strong and insistent appeal—not, I trust, untimely—
1123 Conc, 102 | 102. Insisting on the importance and true
1124 2, 23 | which seek to contain it and insists upon an openness to the
1125 Int, 3 | in the postulates which inspire national and international
1126 5, 54 | and supernatural truth and instill it in human hearts, cannot
1127 3, 31 | which they believe almost instinctively. Yet personal growth and
1128 7, 89 | taken one after another by institutional agencies. Moreover, anthropology
1129 5, 60(84) | Education, Ratio Fundamentalis Institutionis Sacerdotalis (6 January
1130 7, 92 | deeply, and souls must be instructed and formed in it more completely;
1131 4, 47 | of life; but instead, as “instrumental reason”, they are directed—
1132 Int, 4 | its wholeness, without any instrumentalization, must still recognize the
1133 2, 17 | despite its experience of insurmountable limitation, yearns for the
1134 7, 94 | reading which preserves intact their original meaning.
1135 1, 13 | they acknowledge fully and integrally the truth of what is revealed
1136 7, 99 | Church's doctrine in its integrity, 118 demonstrating its link
1137 2 | CHAPTER II - CREDO UT INTELLEGAM~
1138 3 | CHAPTER III - INTELLEGO UT CREDAM~
1139 2, 16 | meditates on wisdom and reasons intelligently, who reflects in his heart
1140 6, 76 | misunderstood: it in no way intends to suggest that there is
1141 1, 14 | this problem frequently and intently, at times it seemed I was
1142 6 | CHAPTER VI - THE INTERACTION BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY~
1143 Conc, 108 | of every hindrance by the intercession of the one who, in giving
1144 3, 25 | knows, and is therefore interested in the real truth of what
1145 7, 85 | today from coming to an interior unity. How could the Church
1146 1, 15 | ire, in te ipsum redi. In interiore homine habitat veritas).21~
1147 7, 83 | reveal the human being's interiority and spirituality, speculative
1148 7, 86 | without concern for their internal coherence, their place within
1149 3, 30 | in the light of this they interpret their own life's course
1150 7, 96(112)| Theological Commission, Document Interpretationis Problema (October 1989):
1151 7, 94 | sources which the theologian interprets primarily transmit a meaning
1152 4, 48 | unconscious, of personhood and intersubjectivity, of freedom and values,
1153 5, 52 | Magisterium of the Church has intervened to make its mind known with
1154 7, 92 | is in no way to encourage intolerance; on the contrary, it is
1155 6, 78 | defend the radical newness introduced by Revelation without ever
1156 Conc, 105 | Saint Bonaventure, who in introducing his Itinerarium Mentis in
1157 Int | INTRODUCTION - “KNOW YOURSELF”~
1158 7, 81 | it to an ever deepening introversion, locked within the confines
1159 3, 34(29) | anticipating and assisting his intuitions”: John Paul II, Address
1160 Int, 4 | Once reason successfully intuits and formulates the first
1161 7, 81 | the human spirit is often invaded by a kind of ambiguous thinking
1162 6, 75 | thought which is patently invalid. In refusing the truth offered
1163 5, 54 | Predecessors have thus made an invaluable contribution which must
1164 7, 87 | error which it expresses can invariably be identified and evaluated
1165 3, 24(22) | desiderando quaererent et inveniendo quiescerent”: Missale Romanum.~
1166 Int, 5 | its one-sided concern to investigate human subjectivity, seems
1167 4, 42 | end: “I think that whoever investigates something incomprehensible
1168 Int, 5 | of being. Abandoning the investigation of being, modern philosophical
1169 1, 10 | In this Revelation, the invisible God (cf. Col 1:15; 1 Tim
1170 5, 61 | the human being.85 But the invitation addressed to theologians
1171 Conc, 108 | the prayer of the Church invokes as Seat of Wisdom, and whose
1172 7, 84(103)| Council, De Errore Abbatis Ioachim, II: DS 806.~
1173 1, 15 | Noli foras ire, in te ipsum redi. In interiore homine
1174 1, 15 | dwells the truth” (Noli foras ire, in te ipsum redi. In interiore
1175 4, 37 | centuries, especially Saint Irenaeus and Tertullian, sound the
1176 7, 88 | life to the realm of the irrational or imaginary. No less disappointing
1177 7, 91 | In response, currents of irrationalism arose, even as the baselessness
1178 7, 91 | the time of certainties is irrevocably past, and the human being
1179 5, 56 | reason to move beyond all isolation and willingly to run risks
1180 2, 16 | Still less did the good Israelite understand knowledge in
1181 Conc, 100 | more systematic way the issue of the relationship between
1182 7, 93 | Passion and Death, a mystery issuing into his glorious Resurrection
1183 Conc, 105 | who in introducing his Itinerarium Mentis in Deum invites the
1184 5, 52(57) | Urban VIII, Inscrutabilis Iudiciorum (1 April 1631): Bullarium
1185 5, 52(59) | Ludovico Eugenio Bautain iussu sui Episcopi subscriptae (
1186 6, 74 | Newman, Antonio Rosmini, Jacques Maritain, Étienne Gilson
1187 Conc, 106(131)| 600th Anniversary of the Jagiellonian University (8 June 1997),
1188 4, 44 | from on high', as Saint James puts it. This also distinguishes
1189 6, 72 | great cultures of China, Japan and the other countries
1190 1, 13 | of which it is rightly jealous. Yet these signs also urge
1191 3, 29 | cast our existence into jeopardy. Everyday life shows well
1192 4, 43 | undertook with the Arab and Jewish thought of his time. In
1193 6, 71 | visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans
1194 3, 26 | questioning found in the Book of Job in order to have doubts
1195 Int, 2(1) | splendour and its profundity joined with simplicity”: No. 19:
1196 7, 92 | to be tackled demands a joint effort—approached, it is
1197 3 | Journeying in search of truth~
1198 6, 71 | residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and
1199 7, 97(114)| Office, Decree Lamentabili (3 July 1907), 26: ASS 40 (1907),
1200 7, 98 | competence, such as peace, social justice, the family, the defence
1201 6, 67 | fundamental theology will be to justify and expound the relationship
1202 7, 85 | fragmentation of meaning, keeps people today from coming
1203 7, 93 | the understanding of God's kenosis, a grand and mysterious
1204 4, 43 | key point and almost the kernel of the solution which, with
1205 2, 23 | comes to grief. The true key-point, which challenges every
1206 6, 76 | philosophers such as Pascal and Kierkegaard reproached such presumption.
1207 2, 17 | things, but the glory of kings is to search things out” (
1208 3, 29 | something of which they knew nothing or for something
1209 5, 53 | Revelation itself, of the natural knowability of the existence of God,
1210 Conc, 106(131)| Address to the University of Krakow for the 600th Anniversary
1211 Int, 6 | so find rest from their labours and joy for their spirit.~
1212 5, 49 | in order to make good the lacunas of deficient philosophical
1213 Conc, 105 | light of the directives laid down by the Second Vatican
1214 7, 97(114)| the Holy Office, Decree Lamentabili (3 July 1907), 26: ASS 40 (
1215 Int, 1 | writings of Confucius and Lao-Tze, and in the preaching of
1216 Int, 4 | wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and
1217 4, 36 | this natural knowledge had lapsed into idolatry (cf. Rom 1:
1218 7, 97 | more recent times, without lapsing into sterile repetition
1219 2, 20 | they are set within the larger horizon of faith: “All man'
1220 4, 45 | fields of research. From the late Medieval period onwards,
1221 5, 55 | sacred texts.~Other modes of latent fideism appear in the scant
1222 4, 39 | In countering the attacks launched by the philosopher Celsus,
1223 6, 72 | cultural worlds which once lay beyond Christian influence,
1224 2, 21 | to doubt is always there. Leaning on God, they continue to
1225 2, 23 | who is wise? Where is the learned? Where is the debater of
1226 6, 76 | presumption. The philosopher who learns humility will also find
1227 4, 40 | schools, but all of them left him disappointed. It was
1228 Int, 3 | national and international legal systems in regulating the
1229 Conc, 105 | Council 129 and subsequent legislation, which speak clearly of
1230 5, 51 | historical form of philosophy can legitimately claim to embrace the totality
1231 3, 32 | love that has no need of lengthy arguments in order to convince.
1232 5, 56 | their philosophizing. The lesson of history in this millennium
1233 2, 23 | Testament, especially in the Letters of Saint Paul, one thing
1234 3, 25 | apprehend that truth even at levels which transcend the person.
1235 6, 72 | an experience which would liberate the spirit from the shackles
1236 5, 54(71) | Theology of Liberation” Libertatis Nuntius (6 August 1984),
1237 6, 71 | Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and
1238 2, 17 | the infinite riches which lie beyond, knowing that there
1239 Int, 5 | has lost the capacity to lift its gaze to the heights,
1240 7, 90 | woman the marks of their likeness to God, and thus to lead
1241 Int, 5 | natural sciences, history, linguistics and so forth—the whole universe
1242 3, 35 | then, let us consider the links between faith and philosophy
1243 4, 38 | encounter which would bring the listener to conversion of heart and
1244 2, 16 | through her windows and listens at her doors. He camps near
1245 3, 24 | and nostalgia for God. The Liturgy of Good Friday recalls this
1246 6, 70 | draw. From their different locations and traditions all are called
1247 7, 81 | deepening introversion, locked within the confines of its
1248 6, 77 | philosophy unwittingly and locking themselves within thought-structures
1249 7, 83 | constitutes a privileged locus for the encounter with being,
1250 1, 15 | Christian Revelation is the true lodestar of men and women as they
1251 2, 16 | under her protection and lodges under her boughs; by her
1252 Int, 4 | ancients called it, orthós logos, recta ratio.~
1253 Conc, 103 | and cultures which have a long-standing Christian tradition. This
1254 3, 24 | went through the city and looked carefully at the objects
1255 4, 44 | apostle of the truth”.52 Looking unreservedly to truth, the
1256 6, 74 | Chaadaev and Vladimir N. Lossky. Obviously other names could
1257 2, 23 | wise...; God chose what is low and despised in the world,
1258 Int, 4 | stems and which it ought loyally to serve.~Although times
1259 Conc, 108 | In her they saw a lucid image of true philosophy
1260 3, 24 | Apostles, the Evangelist Luke tells of Paul's coming to
1261 5, 54 | occasions, warning against the lure of rationalism. Here the
1262 Conc, 107 | philosophical systems have lured people into believing that
1263 5, 62 | found its way even into the Lutheran universities of Germany.
1264 7, 81 | more dramatically, in this maelstrom of data and facts in which
1265 5, 60 | developed in a number of other magisterial documents in order to guarantee
1266 4, 47 | This seems to make up the main chapter of the drama of
1267 4, 36 | transcendence.~One of the major concerns of classical philosophy
1268 7, 89 | vote of a parliamentary majority. 105 The consequences of
1269 6, 70 | with cultures. Christ's mandate to his disciples to go out
1270 5, 52(59) | Ludovico Eugenio Bautain ex mandato S. Cong. Episcoporum et
1271 4, 40 | proof—rather than from the Manichees to have a rash promise of
1272 1, 10 | the history of salvation manifest and confirm the teaching
1273 6, 70 | but authentically—to the manifestation of God in nature, as we
1274 1, 11 | making himself present and manifesting himself: through his words
1275 4, 47 | unforeseeable way, what this manifold activity of man yields is
1276 7, 86 | are given at times. Such manipulation does not help the search
1277 3, 24 | eternal God, you created mankind so that all might long to
1278 4, 47 | been consigned to a wholly marginal role. Other forms of rationality
1279 5, 61 | implicit authorization to marginalize philosophy or to put something
1280 Conc, 108 | need to philosophari in Maria.~May Mary, Seat of Wisdom,
1281 6, 74 | Antonio Rosmini, Jacques Maritain, Étienne Gilson and Edith
1282 Conc, 106 | distinctive and indelible mark of the human person. Scientists
1283 4, 46 | to succumb not only to a market-based logic, but also to the temptation
1284 7, 90 | countenance of man and woman the marks of their likeness to God,
1285 2, 19 | of divine Revelation the marvellous “book of nature”, which,
1286 5, 54 | opinions and methods drawn from Marxism.71~In the past, then, the
1287 5, 54 | the Catholic rejection of Marxist philosophy and atheistic
1288 4, 48 | parrhesia of faith must be matched by the boldness of reason.~
1289 7, 80 | all forms of relativism, materialism and pantheism.~The fundamental
1290 3, 25 | ourselves and to grow as mature, adult persons.~
1291 5, 62 | in the experience which matured through the Middle Ages,
1292 4, 44 | process by which knowledge matures into wisdom. From the first
1293 3, 31 | Yet personal growth and maturity imply that these same truths
1294 6, 67 | language to speak in a true and meaningful way even of things which
1295 7, 84 | it is true, but no less meaningfully for that. 103 Were this
1296 7, 90 | which have rejected the meaningfulness of being. I am referring
1297 Int, 4 | because it is shared in some measure by all, this knowledge should
1298 6, 71 | language? Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents
1299 7, 92 | cultures, in order then to mediate the content of faith to
1300 1, 10 | us in Christ, who is the mediator and at the same time the
1301 2, 16 | truth: “Happy the man who meditates on wisdom and reasons intelligently,
1302 2, 22 | to know God. Through the medium of creatures, God stirs
1303 7, 92 | presented in a way which meets the needs of our time”. 107~
1304 6, 70 | but you are saints and members of the household of God” (
1305 7, 82 | guilty of duplicity and mendacity, can know and grasp the
1306 6, 74 | thinkers, among whom I gladly mention, in a Western context, figures
1307 6, 74 | Saint Augustine should be mentioned, and the Medieval Doctors
1308 Conc, 105 | introducing his Itinerarium Mentis in Deum invites the reader
1309 Int, 5 | individuals are at the mercy of caprice, and their state
1310 6, 78 | repeatedly acclaimed the merits of Saint Thomas' thought
1311 3, 25 | when he writes: “I have met many who wanted to deceive,
1312 5, 62 | influence of the Disputationes Metaphysicae of Francisco Suárez, which
1313 3, 34(29) | language in its teaching: 'Methodical research, in all realms
1314 6, 65 | in the light of a twofold methodological principle: the auditus fidei
1315 6, 71 | telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God” (Acts 2:7-
1316 1, 11(9) | Apostolic Letter Tertio Millennio Adveniente (10 November
1317 Int, 1 | truth to be adopted as a minimal norm by those who seek to
1318 4, 41 | speculation. It is therefore minimalizing and mistaken to restrict
1319 7, 94 | wonderful “condescension” which mirrors the logic of the Incarnation. 110
1320 7, 90 | together they perish in misery. 106~
1321 4, 40 | modest and not in the least misleading to be told by the Church
1322 5, 57 | more than point out the misperceptions and the mistakes of philosophical
1323 3, 24(22) | inveniendo quiescerent”: Missale Romanum.~
1324 5, 57 | the misperceptions and the mistakes of philosophical theories.
1325 4, 38 | wisdom that is creator and mistress of all things, that is knowledge
1326 5, 61 | it should be said, is the misunderstanding which has arisen especially
1327 6, 76 | valid, but it should not be misunderstood: it in no way intends to
1328 7, 86 | appears also in the rhetorical misuse of philosophical terms to
1329 4, 40 | promise of knowledge with mockery of mere belief, and then
1330 Int, 5 | knowledge. With a false modesty, people rest content with
1331 Conc, 106 | their complex atomic and molecular structures. So far has science
1332 6, 74 | masters can only give greater momentum to both the search for truth
1333 Conc, 108 | was a truth which the holy monks of Christian antiquity understood
1334 4, 42(43) | Idem, Monologion, 64: PL 158, 210.~
1335 3, 25 | Veritatis Splendor: “There is no morality without freedom... Although
1336 7, 88 | possible it is therefore morally admissible.~
1337 4, 36 | could not refer only to “Moses and the prophets” when they
1338 Conc, 108(132)| Homily in Praise of Holy Mary Mother of God: PG 43, 493.~
1339 4, 38 | understanding of faith and its motivations. Quite the contrary. That
1340 4, 40 | He himself reveals his motive: “From this time on, I gave
1341 4, 39 | to shape his argument and mount his reply. Assuming many
1342 1, 15 | near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, that
1343 3, 24 | theirs. Through literature, music, painting, sculpture, architecture
1344 7, 80 | which sets them together in mutuality without confusion of any
1345 4, 36 | human notions of God of mythological elements. We know that Greek
1346 6, 74 | Petr Chaadaev and Vladimir N. Lossky. Obviously other
1347 4, 41 | limitations. They were not naive thinkers. Precisely because
1348 4, 44 | faith itself: “The wisdom named among the gifts of the Holy
1349 6, 74 | Lossky. Obviously other names could be cited; and in referring
1350 7, 94 | certainly not restricted to the narration of simple historical events
1351 6, 66 | of salvation, both as a narrative and, above all, in the form
1352 Int, 3 | postulates which inspire national and international legal
1353 3, 24 | one ancestor he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth,
1354 6, 67 | existence of truths which are naturally, and thus philosophically,
1355 4, 43(45) | cum enim gratia non tollat naturam sed perficiat”.~
1356 2, 19 | constellations of the stars, the natures of animals and the tempers
1357 6, 74 | at least Saint Gregory of Nazianzus and Saint Augustine should
1358 6, 77 | history to indicate the necessity of the link between the
1359 4, 43 | the unnatural tendency to negate the world and its values
1360 7, 90 | all foundations and the negation of all objective truth.
1361 Conc, 100 | philosophy faces when it neglects or rejects the truths of
1362 4, 40 | christianizing Platonic and Neo-Platonic thought, the Cappadocian
1363 7, 88 | emerged in positivism and neo-positivism, which considered metaphysical
1364 5, 59 | 59. Yet the Thomistic and neo-Thomistic revival was not the only
1365 1, 14 | solum es quo maius cogitari nequit), but you are greater than
1366 7, 94 | events or the statement of neutral facts, as historicist positivism
1367 Conc, 106 | the world or of man, is never-ending, but always points beyond
1368 6, 74 | figures such as John Henry Newman, Antonio Rosmini, Jacques
1369 2, 17 | reason, and in this their nobility consists. The Psalmist adds
1370 6, 77 | undergo.~It was because of its noble and indispensable contribution
1371 | Nobody
1372 Conc, 108(132)| He noera tes pisteos trapeza”: Pseudo-Epiphanius,
1373 1, 15 | there dwells the truth” (Noli foras ire, in te ipsum redi.
1374 4, 42 | videndum factus sum; et nondum feci propter quod factus
1375 Int, 1 | be adopted as a minimal norm by those who seek to set
1376 5, 55 | well founded are taken as normative for theological research.
1377 2, 21 | when the Book of Proverbs notes the weariness which comes
1378 4, 46 | nihilism. As a philosophy of nothingness, it has a certain attraction
1379 6, 77 | presents another stance worth noting when theology itself calls
1380 1, 14 | also emerges a genuinely novel consideration for philosophical
1381 Conc, 103(125)| Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi (8 December 1975), 20: AAS
1382 5, 54(71) | of Liberation” Libertatis Nuntius (6 August 1984), VII-X:
1383 7, 91 | cast of mind continues to nurture the illusion that, thanks
1384 Int, 3 | love of wisdom”. Born and nurtured when the human being first
1385 1, 13 | Faith is said first to be an obedient response to God. This implies
1386 6, 79 | already noted, philosophy must obey its own rules and be based
1387 6, 75 | an autonomous enterprise, obeying its own rules and employing
1388 6, 69 | 69. It might be objected that the theologian should
1389 4, 44 | Thomas could recognize the objectivity of truth and produce not
1390 3, 24 | looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found
1391 Int, 2 | and on the other hand it obliges the believing community
1392 7, 82 | Intelligence is not confined to observable data alone. It can with
1393 2, 21 | simply a matter of careful observation of the human being, of the
1394 2, 16 | peoples, are realities to be observed, analysed and assessed with
1395 2, 22 | truth would be strewn with obstacles. From that time onwards
1396 Conc, 100 | powerful, though not always obvious, influence on theology and
1397 6, 74 | and Vladimir N. Lossky. Obviously other names could be cited;
1398 7, 94 | Beyond simple historical occurrence, the truth of the events
1399 2, 23 | forth upon the boundless ocean of truth. Here we see not
1400 5, 63 | thinking which is not at odds with faith. It is my task
1401 5, 62(87) | Session VIII: Conciliorum Oecumenicorum Decreta, 1991, 605-606.~
1402 6, 76 | suggest that there is an official philosophy of the Church,
1403 6, 70 | appeal to the values of older traditions, they point—implicitly
1404 4, 44 | is of the Holy Spirit” (omne verum a quocumque dicatur
1405 Conc, 105(128)| Prologus, 4: Opera Omnia, Florence, 1891, vol. V,
1406 7, 89 | severely compromised by a one-dimensional vision of the human being,
1407 Int, 5 | fact that reason, in its one-sided concern to investigate human
1408 5, 52 | other, rationalism 61 and ontologism 62 because they attributed
1409 5, 52(62) | Holy Office, Decree Errores Ontologistarum (18 September 1861), DS
1410 Int, 6 | of “proclaiming the truth openly” (2 Cor 4:2), as also theologians
1411 Conc, 105(128)| Prologus, 4: Opera Omnia, Florence, 1891, vol.
1412 4, 46 | some of these, sensing the opportunities of technological progress,
1413 4, 38 | of a disturbance than an opportunity. For them, the first and
1414 6, 72 | difference and affirm itself by opposing other traditions.~What has
1415 7, 91 | collapse of rationalist optimism, which viewed history as
1416 6, 72 | which are for the most part orally transmitted.~
1417 5, 62 | theological learning emerged. This ordering of studies influenced, promoted
1418 3, 26 | philosophy one of its decisive orientations, no less decisive now than
1419 6, 76 | have abandoned Christian orthodoxy.~
1420 Int, 4 | the ancients called it, orthós logos, recta ratio.~
1421 | ours
1422 3, 29 | us there is at least an outline of the answers. One reason
1423 5, 54 | but had their origins “outside the sheepfold of Christ”.68
1424 4, 39 | this, Origen is certainly outstanding. In countering the attacks
1425 2, 20 | is valued without being overvalued. The results of reasoning
1426 4, 42 | it is as if reason were overwhelmed to see that it can always
1427 Conc, 106 | research, to whom humanity owes so much of its current development,
1428 4, 36 | Acts 14:16-17). Since in pagan religion this natural knowledge
1429 4, 37 | of the cultural world of paganism, one example of which is
1430 4, 36 | no means accidental. If pagans were to understand them,
1431 1, 12 | dramatic questions such as pain, the suffering of the innocent
1432 3, 24 | Through literature, music, painting, sculpture, architecture
1433 6, 71 | Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of
1434 7, 80 | relativism, materialism and pantheism.~The fundamental conviction
1435 Conc, 108 | whose life itself is a true parable illuminating the reflection
1436 2, 23 | teaching as he speaks the paradox: “God has chosen in the
1437 5, 59 | inspiration. Earlier still, and parallel to Pope Leo's call, there
1438 6, 71 | beings are both child and parent of the culture in which
1439 2, 22 | pride deceived our first parents into thinking themselves
1440 5, 55 | have become part of current parlance and culture but which are
1441 7, 89 | decided by the vote of a parliamentary majority. 105 The consequences
1442 4, 48 | their mutual autonomy. The parrhesia of faith must be matched
1443 6, 71 | his own native language? Parthians and Medes and Elamites and
1444 5, 54(66) | Cf. Encyclical Letter Pascendi Dominici Gregis (8 September
1445 6, 70 | cultural differences. A passage of Saint Paul's letter to
1446 4, 43 | prejudiced rejection of it. He passed therefore into the history
1447 7, 85 | beginning with the ancients, passes through the Fathers of the
1448 5, 60(84) | Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Pastores Dabo Vobis (25 March 1992),
1449 Int, 6 | when we are faced with the patent inadequacy of perspectives
1450 6, 75 | self-sufficiency of thought which is patently invalid. In refusing the
1451 Int, 6 | quick success to the toil of patient enquiry into what makes
1452 2, 22 | say that this important Pauline text affirms the human capacity
1453 4, 38 | for Christian faith 34 and paved the way for the Gospel.35
1454 6, 74 | as Vladimir S. Soloviev, Pavel A. Florensky, Petr Chaadaev
1455 1, 8 | exists a knowledge which is peculiar to faith, surpassing the
1456 5, 57 | from either a practical or pedagogical point of view—most particularly,
1457 2, 16 | in wait on her paths. He peers through her windows and
1458 1, 13(17) | Pensées, 789 (ed. L. Brunschvicg).~
1459 6, 71 | Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost. Hearing the Apostles, they
1460 3, 32 | they speak to us of what we perceive deep down as the truth we
1461 5, 55(72) | intrinsic truth of the things perceived by the natural light of
1462 2, 22 | lies at the origin of all perceptible reality. In philosophical
1463 5, 57 | Saint Thomas distinguishes perfectly between faith and reason”,
1464 4, 43(45) | gratia non tollat naturam sed perficiat”.~
1465 7, 91 | the different historical periods. One thing however is certain:
1466 4, 47 | learning appear all the more peripheral. These forms of rationality
1467 7, 90 | in hand or together they perish in misery. 106~
1468 6, 71 | Revelation.~Cultural context permeates the living of Christian
1469 Conc, 104 | hostile to the Church and persecute her in various ways”. 126
1470 3, 31 | life is based? Who could personally examine the flow of information
1471 4, 48 | and the unconscious, of personhood and intersubjectivity, of
1472 Int, 1 | fundamental questions which pervade human life: Who am I? Where
1473 7, 83 | to move beyond the crisis pervading large sectors of philosophy
1474 6, 67 | account of faith (cf. 1 Pet 3:15), the concern of fundamental
1475 Conc, 108 | Given in Rome, at Saint Peter's, on 14 September, the
1476 6, 74 | Soloviev, Pavel A. Florensky, Petr Chaadaev and Vladimir N.
1477 7, 82 | weakened”. 100~A radically phenomenalist or relativist philosophy
1478 5, 54 | philosophical claims which were phenomenist, agnostic and immanentist.66
1479 5, 59 | with the perspective of phenomenological method. From different quarters,
1480 Conc, 108 | convinced of the need to philosophari in Maria.~May Mary, Seat
1481 6, 77 | as “ancillary” to “prima philosophia”. The term can scarcely
1482 2, 19 | in a word, that he can philosophize—the sacred text takes a
1483 4, 44(50) | which echoes the well known phrase of the Ambrosiaster, In
1484 6, 71 | Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and
1485 7, 91 | intention to present a complete picture of the present state of
1486 2, 17 | Psalmist adds one final piece to this mosaic when he says
1487 Int, 2 | the Church has made her pilgrim way along the paths of the
1488 6, 71 | the event witnessed by the pilgrims in Jerusalem on the day
1489 Conc, 106 | encouragement to these brave pioneers of scientific research,
1490 Conc, 108(132)| He noera tes pisteos trapeza”: Pseudo-Epiphanius,
1491 2, 16 | tent-peg to her walls; he pitches his tent near her and so
1492 6, 76 | accident that this has become pivotal for a philosophy of history
1493 4, 46 | the political and social plane, gave rise to totalitarian
1494 4, 41 | could rise to the higher planes of thought, providing a
1495 Conc, 104 | underpinning for the true and planetary ethics which the world now
1496 2, 16 | pertinent: “The human mind plans the way, but the Lord directs
1497 Int, 1 | philosophical writings of Plato and Aristotle. They are
1498 4, 40 | Though he accorded the Platonists a place of privilege, Augustine
1499 3, 32 | relationship and brings into play not only a person's capacity
1500 7, 83 | experience. Metaphysics thus plays an essential role of mediation