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1501 Int, 5 | judged certain. A legitimate plurality of positions has yielded
1502 3, 33(28) | every human heart, as the poetic genius of every time and
1503 6, 67 | the First Vatican Council pointed to the existence of truths
1504 7, 88 | facticity. Science would thus be poised to dominate all aspects
1505 4, 36 | most cosmic religions, was polytheistic, even to the point of divinizing
1506 7, 96 | This is a complex theme to ponder, since one must reckon seriously
1507 7, 88 | the animal rationale, has pondered constantly from the beginning
1508 2, 21 | which they had to respond. Pondering this as his situation, biblical
1509 2, 16 | his heart on her ways and ponders her secrets. He pursues
1510 5, 54 | in service of the Roman Pontiff's universal Magisterium,70
1511 Conc, 108 | 1998, the twentieth of my Pontificate.~JOHN PAUL II~ ~
1512 6, 71 | Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia,
1513 1, 14 | Woe is me, one of the poor children of Eve, far from
1514 7, 85 | taught repeatedly by the Popes for several generations
1515 Int, 1 | was carved on the temple portal at Delphi, as testimony
1516 2, 16 | describe the wise man, he portrays him as one who loves and
1517 3, 26 | philosophers have again and again posed this question, together
1518 3, 33(28) | every people has shown, posing again and again—almost as
1519 5, 52 | this document strongly and positively marked the philosophical
1520 7, 91 | remains true that a certain positivist cast of mind continues to
1521 4, 46 | of scientific research, a positivistic mentality took hold which
1522 4, 43 | Without doubt, Thomas possessed supremely the courage of
1523 1, 15 | taking full and harmonious possession of their lives, precisely
1524 Conc, 104 | cultures, for instance—may possibly find a solution if there
1525 1, 14 | quiddam maius quam cogitari possit)... If you were not such,
1526 5, 60(84) | AAS 71 (1979), 495-496; Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Pastores
1527 7, 91 | some thinkers the age of “postmodernity”. Often used in very different
1528 Conc, 104 | problems, 127 will provide a potent underpinning for the true
1529 7, 81 | inhuman and even become potential destroyer of the human race.98~
1530 4, 47 | are directed—actually or potentially—towards the promotion of
1531 3, 24 | Good Friday recalls this powerfully when, in praying for those
1532 4, 40 | philosophers he had known had been powerless to lead him. He himself
1533 6, 79(95) | Saint Augustine, De Praedestinatione Sanctorum, 2, 5: PL 44,
1534 5, 61 | pastoral formation and in the praeparatio fidei. A further factor
1535 4, 41(40) | De Praescriptione Haereticorum, VII, 9: SC
1536 4, 44(48) | Cf. I, 1, 6: “Praeterea, haec doctrina per studium
1537 Conc, 108(132)| Pseudo-Epiphanius, Homily in Praise of Holy Mary Mother of God:
1538 3, 24 | this powerfully when, in praying for those who do not believe,
1539 5, 52 | argued in favour of the pre-existence of the soul,56 or concerning
1540 6, 70 | time the Gospel was first preached, the Church has known the
1541 6, 67(90) | constitutes the necessary preamble to fundamental theology,
1542 5, 62 | of theological studies is preceded by a time of special study
1543 5, 53 | and the transcendence and precedence of the mysteries of faith
1544 6, 68 | and specific teachings and precepts. In order to apply these
1545 4, 48 | there are found at times precious and seminal insights which,
1546 6, 75 | damage, since this is to preclude access to a deeper knowledge
1547 6, 72 | that other approaches are precluded. Today, as the Gospel gradually
1548 7, 89 | in making its choices, precludes theoretical considerations
1549 7, 84 | reason? When, on the basis of preconceived assumptions, these positions
1550 Int, 5 | truth, modern philosophy has preferred to accentuate the ways in
1551 Int, 6 | no longer look to truth, preferring quick success to the toil
1552 2, 16 | if they are read without prejudice, is that they embody not
1553 4, 43 | secular philosophy nor by a prejudiced rejection of it. He passed
1554 4, 40 | drawing on experience, was a prelude to future developments in
1555 3, 34 | of truth is a fundamental premise of human reasoning, as the
1556 3, 29 | enough how each one of us is preoccupied by the pressure of a few
1557 4, 38 | Law, as instruction which prepared for Christian faith 34 and
1558 7, 98 | individual conscience the prerogative of independently determining
1559 6, 68 | is much less governed by prescriptions than in the Old Testament.
1560 4, 47 | chapter of the drama of present-day human existence in its broadest
1561 Conc, 105 | preparation, a systematic presentation of the great heritage of
1562 7, 92 | understood more profoundly and presented in a way which meets the
1563 6, 71 | cultures allows people to preserve their own cultural identity.
1564 7, 94 | centuries, a reading which preserves intact their original meaning.
1565 7, 97 | civil society, would be hard pressed to avoid the danger of such
1566 3, 29 | us is preoccupied by the pressure of a few fundamental questions
1567 1, 15 | make their way amid the pressures of an immanentist habit
1568 7, 84 | about God and about what God presumably thinks of us.~
1569 5, 53 | with the basic criterion, presupposed by Revelation itself, of
1570 5, 50 | indicate which philosophical presuppositions and conclusions are incompatible
1571 7, 86 | thought which are especially prevalent today. It is appropriate,
1572 2, 22 | women were caught up in this primal disobedience, which so wounded
1573 2, 22 | reason became more and more a prisoner to itself. The coming of
1574 4, 40 | the Platonists a place of privilege, Augustine rebuked them
1575 7, 83 | the person constitutes a privileged locus for the encounter
1576 7, 96(112)| Document Interpretationis Problema (October 1989): Enchiridion
1577 6, 64 | must relate, in some of its procedures and in the performance of
1578 5, 49 | philosophy which did not proceed in the light of reason according
1579 7, 97 | Christology, for example, which proceeded solely “from below”, as
1580 3, 34(29) | Scripture and the natural world proceeding equally from the divine
1581 4, 38 | and gender, Christianity proclaimed from the first the equality
1582 1, 15 | Revelation is neither the product nor the consummation of
1583 1, 14(20) | Proemium and Nos. 1, 15: PL 158,
1584 5, 55(72) | the Catholic Church professes that it is a supernatural
1585 2, 16 | understood in depth without professing faith in the God who is
1586 3, 30 | sometimes ephemeral teachings of professional philosophers. All men and
1587 7, 80 | the meaning of life and proffers its response in directing
1588 1, 14 | which I could gain some profit; but it would then present
1589 4, 38 | Christianity “the only sure and profitable philosophy”.32 Similarly,
1590 Int, 2(1) | power, its splendour and its profundity joined with simplicity”:
1591 1, 11 | another, the Church constantly progresses towards the fullness of
1592 4, 46 | religions serving as a basis for projects which, on the political
1593 7, 81 | scientific temper, have so proliferated that we face an increasing
1594 5, 51 | God.~Today, then, with the proliferation of systems, methods, concepts
1595 Conc, 105(128)| Prologus, 4: Opera Omnia, Florence,
1596 Int, 5 | times have seen the rise to prominence of various doctrines which
1597 5, 62 | ordering of studies influenced, promoted and enabled much of the
1598 Conc, 102 | philosophical thought, the Church promotes both the defence of human
1599 7, 85 | that some philosophers are promoting a recovery of the determining
1600 4, 47 | potentially—towards the promotion of utilitarian ends, towards
1601 5, 52 | the First Vatican Council—pronounced solemnly on the relationship
1602 4, 40 | not one open to rational proof—rather than from the Manichees
1603 6, 67 | the existence of a truly propaedeutic path to faith, one which
1604 7, 88 | technology have helped to propagate a scientistic outlook, which
1605 Int, 3 | itself. It is an innate property of human reason to ask why
1606 Int, 2(1) | sharers in this mission of the prophet Christ, and in virtue of
1607 6, 76 | content. Revelation clearly proposes certain truths which might
1608 4, 43 | justified in consistently proposing Saint Thomas as a master
1609 4, 48 | longer being a universal proposition. It is an illusion to think
1610 4, 42 | factus sum; et nondum feci propter quod factus sum)”.42 The
1611 6, 71 | from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians, we
1612 7, 92 | and philosophy alike the prospect of support, stimulation
1613 2, 16 | places his children under her protection and lodges under her boughs;
1614 4, 38 | called the hedge and the protective wall around the vineyard”.37~
1615 2, 18 | such a path is not for the proud who think that everything
1616 6, 69 | of Greek and Eurocentric provenance. Others still, prompted
1617 2, 22 | discoursing on the data provided by the senses, reason can
1618 2, 16 | of events the workings of Providence. Here the words of the Book
1619 2, 18 | transcendent sovereignty and provident love in the governance of
1620 6, 72 | heritage would be to deny the providential plan of God who guides his
1621 4, 41 | higher planes of thought, providing a solid foundation for the
1622 3, 26 | of the absurd or to the provocative questioning found in the
1623 5, 54 | in the end these theories provoke a more discriminating discussion
1624 7, 91 | rationalist argument, has provoked a radical requestioning
1625 2, 17 | their nobility consists. The Psalmist adds one final piece to
1626 Conc, 108(132)| noera tes pisteos trapeza”: Pseudo-Epiphanius, Homily in Praise of Holy
1627 6, 76 | in the sense that faith purifies reason. As a theological
1628 4, 36 | classical philosophy was to purify human notions of God of
1629 Conc, 100 | they offer to each other a purifying critique and a stimulus
1630 4, 38 | of soul and speech and in purity of life, it is well disposed
1631 2, 16 | ponders her secrets. He pursues her like a hunter and lies
1632 7, 80 | challenge of this mystery pushes philosophy to its limits,
1633 4, 46 | reference, are in danger of putting at the centre of their concerns
1634 2, 21 | created them “explorers” (cf. Qoh 1:13), whose mission it
1635 3, 24(22) | Ut te semper desiderando quaererent et inveniendo quiescerent”:
1636 1, 14 | conceived (quiddam maius quam cogitari possit)... If you
1637 5, 59 | phenomenological method. From different quarters, then, modes of philosophical
1638 4, 46 | also to the temptation of a quasi-divine power over nature and even
1639 6, 79 | capacity to question and to be questioned. By virtue of the splendour
1640 2, 16 | follow that path to its end, quickly and unhindered, only if
1641 1, 14 | all that can be conceived (quiddam maius quam cogitari possit)...
1642 3, 24(22) | quaererent et inveniendo quiescerent”: Missale Romanum.~
1643 1, 14 | conceived (non solum es quo maius cogitari nequit),
1644 4, 44 | Holy Spirit” (omne verum a quocumque dicatur a Spiritu Sancto
1645 4, 42 | et nondum feci propter quod factus sum)”.42 The desire
1646 1, 13(15) | Vatican Council, to which the quotation above refers, teaches that
1647 Conc, 104 | co-existence of different races and cultures, for instance—
1648 4, 40 | the Manichees to have a rash promise of knowledge with
1649 4, 42 | that one cannot comprehend (rationabiliter comprehendit incomprehensibile
1650 7, 88 | human being, as the animal rationale, has pondered constantly
1651 4, 42 | prior thought has concluded rationally that one cannot comprehend (
1652 Conc, 105 | Mentis in Deum invites the reader to recognize the inadequacy
1653 5, 61 | always been followed with the readiness one would wish. In the years
1654 Int, 6 | Jesus Christ, the Church reaffirms the need to reflect upon
1655 4, 44 | unreservedly to truth, the realism of Thomas could recognize
1656 1, 13 | subject to act in a way which realizes personal freedom to the
1657 3, 34(29) | Methodical research, in all realms of knowledge, if it respects...
1658 5, 55 | temptations of other times have reappeared. In some contemporary theologies,
1659 4, 40 | of privilege, Augustine rebuked them because, knowing the
1660 6, 67 | and philosophical thought. Recalling the teaching of Saint Paul (
1661 3, 24 | The Liturgy of Good Friday recalls this powerfully when, in
1662 Conc, 106 | because of the support it receives from faith.~Finally, I cannot
1663 | recently
1664 6, 79 | theological thinking in their reciprocal relationship. It is to be
1665 7, 96 | to ponder, since one must reckon seriously with the meaning
1666 7, 88 | 88. Another threat to be reckoned with is scientism. This
1667 5, 60 | the priesthood; and its recommendations have implications for Christian
1668 7, 95 | question of how one can reconcile the absoluteness and the
1669 4, 43 | of faith and reason was a reconciliation between the secularity of
1670 6, 64 | the revealed word, demand recourse to philosophical enquiry.~
1671 7, 85 | philosophers are promoting a recovery of the determining role
1672 2, 22 | was the saving event which redeemed reason from its weakness,
1673 6, 75 | before the birth of the Redeemer and later in regions as
1674 5, 54(67) | Encyclical Letter Divini Redemptoris (19 March 1937): AAS 29 (
1675 1, 15 | Noli foras ire, in te ipsum redi. In interiore homine habitat
1676 4, 43 | Christian thinkers were rediscovering the treasures of ancient
1677 5, 58 | flourished, resulting in a rediscovery of the riches of Medieval
1678 7, 81 | would be in grave danger of reducing reason to merely accessory
1679 7, 97 | avoid the danger of such reductionism.~If the intellectus fidei
1680 7, 97 | approach which is inadequate, reductive and superficial at the level
1681 6, 64 | nature a philosopher. As a reflective and scientific elaboration
1682 5, 62 | which has led either to a refusal of any kind of dialogue
1683 1, 12 | which the first Adam had refused (cf. Rom 5:12-15). Through
1684 6, 75 | is patently invalid. In refusing the truth offered by divine
1685 7, 97 | conduct, has already been refuted and rejected; 114 but the
1686 7, 80 | vision offers indications regarding man's life, his freedom
1687 5, 62(87) | Council, Bull Apostolici Regimini Sollicitudo, Session VIII:
1688 5, 52(58) | Ecumenical Council, Bull Apostoli Regiminis, DS 1440.~
1689 7, 88 | changes it has brought.~Regrettably, it must be noted, scientism
1690 3, 30 | their own life's course and regulate their behaviour. At this
1691 Int, 3 | international legal systems in regulating the life of society.~
1692 7, 82 | means of that adaequatio rei et intellectus to which
1693 5, 61 | intervene on this question, to reiterate the value of the Angelic
1694 5, 60 | These directives have been reiterated and developed in a number
1695 2, 16 | remarkably clear cues how deeply related are the knowledge conferred
1696 7, 82 | radically phenomenalist or relativist philosophy would be ill-adapted
1697 7, 88 | positive sciences; and it relegates religious, theological,
1698 7, 87 | make theological discourse relevant and understandable to our
1699 1, 15(21) | De Vera Religione, XXXIX, 72: CCL 32, 234.~
1700 5, 52(59) | S. Cong. Episcoporum et Religiosorum subscriptae (26 April 1844),
1701 5, 49 | underlying reason for this reluctance is that, even when it engages
1702 6, 69 | theologian should nowadays rely less on philosophy than
1703 5, 59 | Some devised syntheses so remarkable that they stood comparison
1704 2, 16 | Scripture indicates with remarkably clear cues how deeply related
1705 5, 60(84) | 750-751. Cf. also various remarks on the philosophy of Saint
1706 3, 34 | in Christ, as the Apostle reminds us: “Truth is in Jesus” (
1707 4, 38 | seemed to them something remote and in some ways outmoded.~
1708 4, 38 | strengthen truth; but, in rendering the attack of sophistry
1709 3, 34 | makes clear. Revelation renders this unity certain, showing
1710 7, 92 | Vatican Council, the task of renewing its specific methods in
1711 Int, 6 | to us Bishops; we cannot renounce this task without failing
1712 5, 62 | 62. I wish to repeat clearly that the study of
1713 6, 71 | the centuries we have seen repeated the event witnessed by the
1714 Conc, 105 | inadequacy of “reading without repentance, knowledge without devotion,
1715 7, 97 | without lapsing into sterile repetition of antiquated formulas.
1716 4, 39 | his argument and mount his reply. Assuming many elements
1717 4, 46 | in the last century. Some representatives of idealism sought in various
1718 2, 23 | of love which the Cross represents, while the Cross can give
1719 6, 76 | as Pascal and Kierkegaard reproached such presumption. The philosopher
1720 4, 38 | conversion of heart and the request for Baptism. But that does
1721 7, 91 | has provoked a radical requestioning of claims once thought indisputable.
1722 6, 71 | and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and
1723 Int, 6 | and now it must strive resolutely to recover its original
1724 6, 76 | questions which are difficult to resolve if the data of Revelation
1725 7, 87 | more than an archeological resource useful for illustrating
1726 4, 36 | mystery cults notions more respectful of divine transcendence.~
1727 1, 15 | the transcendent, whilst respecting both their autonomy as creatures
1728 3, 34(29) | realms of knowledge, if it respects... moral norms, will never
1729 6, 70 | how the early community responded to the problem. The Apostle
1730 Conc, 103 | people. A philosophy which responds to the challenge of theology'
1731 1, 11 | years later, I feel bound to restate forcefully that “in Christianity
1732 1, 8 | 8. Restating almost to the letter the
1733 4, 36 | principles, they no longer rested content with the ancient
1734 2, 16 | and so finds an excellent resting-place; he places his children
1735 4, 41 | minimalizing and mistaken to restrict their work simply to the
1736 5, 58 | Historical studies flourished, resulting in a rediscovery of the
1737 6, 76 | of God. This conclusion retains all its relevance, despite
1738 5, 55 | problems of other times have returned, but in a new key. It is
1739 4, 47 | consequences of its effects returning on himself. It is or can
1740 7, 86 | appropriate, I think, to review them, however briefly, in
1741 Conc, 100 | have sensed the need to revisit in a more systematic way
1742 7, 88 | claim, but now we see it revived in the new guise of scientism,
1743 3, 25 | truth, they feel themselves rewarded. It is this that Saint Augustine
1744 7, 86 | eclecticism appears also in the rhetorical misuse of philosophical
1745 3, 32 | belief is often humanly richer than mere evidence, because
1746 Conc, 101 | insights have contributed richly to the progress of humanity.
1747 1, 14 | impossible to find. I wanted to rid myself of that thought because,
1748 1, 12 | existence remains an insoluble riddle. Where might the human being
1749 Conc, 106 | assured of her respect for the rightful autonomy of their discipline.
1750 4, 38 | wisdom which consists in rightness of soul and speech and in
1751 5, 57 | conceding to each its specific rights and to each its specific
1752 5, 54 | specific task in service of the Roman Pontiff's universal Magisterium,70
1753 2, 22 | chapter of his Letter to the Romans, Saint Paul helps us to
1754 6, 74 | John Henry Newman, Antonio Rosmini, Jacques Maritain, Étienne
1755 Int, 4 | would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would
1756 3, 29 | questions itself implies the rudiments of a response. Human beings
1757 5, 60(84) | Fundamentalis Institutionis Sacerdotalis (6 January 1970), 70-75:
1758 5, 60(84) | 1970), 366-368; Decree Sacra Theologia (20 January 1972):
1759 1, 13 | then, we return to the sacramental character of Revelation
1760 7, 89 | meaning of suffering and sacrifice, of life and death.~
1761 7, 80 | nature and divine nature are safeguarded in all their autonomy, and
1762 2, 16 | philosopher or the Egyptian sage. Still less did the good
1763 4, 42 | intellectus fidei. For the saintly Archbishop of Canterbury
1764 6, 70 | sojourners, but you are saints and members of the household
1765 3, 26(26) | Paul II, Apostolic Letter Salvifici Doloris (11 February 1984),
1766 4, 44(48) | inter septem dona Spiritus Sancti connumeratur”.~
1767 7, 96(112)| Ecumenical Councils, but even sanctioned by them, so that it is wrong
1768 4, 44 | quocumque dicatur a Spiritu Sancto est) 50 Saint Thomas was
1769 6, 79(95) | Augustine, De Praedestinatione Sanctorum, 2, 5: PL 44, 963.~
1770 2, 17 | they are more than the sand. If I come to the end, I
1771 Int, 5 | its way in the shifting sands of widespread scepticism.
1772 3, 29 | they have not yet found a satisfactory answer.~The same must be
1773 4, 42 | incomprehensible should be satisfied if, by way of reasoning,
1774 3, 27 | fascinate, but they do not satisfy. Whether we admit it or
1775 Conc, 107 | at man, whom Christ has saved in the mystery of his love,
1776 7, 99 | fullness of the truth which saves (cf. .Acts 4:12; 1 Tm 2:
1777 4, 38 | faith: “The teaching of the Saviour is perfect in itself and
1778 7, 84 | would not be capable of saying anything about God. The
1779 4, 44 | transcendent truth, his thought scales “heights unthinkable to
1780 2, 23 | considers “foolishness” and a “scandal”. Adopting the language
1781 7, 92(109)| connected not only with the scandalum Crucis, but also with everything
1782 5, 55 | latent fideism appear in the scant consideration accorded to
1783 6, 77 | philosophia”. The term can scarcely be used today, given the
1784 4, 45 | itself. In a spirit both sceptical and agnostic, some began
1785 7, 85 | Church and the masters of Scholasticism and includes the fundamental
1786 7, 86 | arguments seriously and scientifically. The rigorous and far-reaching
1787 7, 93 | living Tradition. On this score, some problems have emerged
1788 6, 66 | proposed to us in the Sacred Scriptures and rightly interpreted
1789 4, 48 | philosophical reason. Yet closer scrutiny shows that even in the philosophical
1790 3, 24 | literature, music, painting, sculpture, architecture and every
1791 1, 13 | for he came to teach the secret things of God.13 But our
1792 2, 16 | her ways and ponders her secrets. He pursues her like a hunter
1793 7, 83 | the crisis pervading large sectors of philosophy at the moment,
1794 4, 43 | contaminated neither by secular philosophy nor by a prejudiced
1795 4, 43 | reconciliation between the secularity of the world and the radicality
1796 3, 32 | fullness of certainty and security. At the same time, however,
1797 4, 43(45) | gratia non tollat naturam sed perficiat”.~
1798 7, 85 | of the Christian era. The segmentation of knowledge, with its splintered
1799 Conc, 107 | realization of their true self.~
1800 Int, 1 | the horizon of personal self-consciousness: the more human beings know
1801 5, 51 | understand the need for self-criticism, the correction of errors
1802 7, 92(109)| connected with Christ's self-emptying through his Passion and
1803 7, 80 | is neither uncreated nor self-generating. God alone is the Absolute.
1804 7, 91 | that reason be absolutely self-grounded was being critically demonstrated.~
1805 6, 75 | a valid autonomy, but a self-sufficiency of thought which is patently
1806 7, 80 | the created world is not self-sufficient, every illusion of autonomy
1807 2, 23 | human being's ceaselessly self-transcendent orientation towards the
1808 5, 55(72) | no more than a fraudulent semblance of truth”: ibid., IV: DS
1809 Conc, 105 | teaching philosophy both in seminaries and ecclesiastical faculties
1810 3, 24(22) | Ut te semper desiderando quaererent et
1811 7, 93 | Father, whence he would send the Spirit of truth to bring
1812 1, 11 | the dead and finally his sending of the Spirit of truth”.10~
1813 4, 46 | more than an occasion for sensations and experiences in which
1814 4, 46 | Further still, some of these, sensing the opportunities of technological
1815 2, 16 | reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the
1816 6, 70 | wrought by Christ, the walls separating the different cultures collapsed.
1817 4, 44(48) | infusionem habetur, unde inter septem dona Spiritus Sancti connumeratur”.~
1818 1, 13(16) | Sequence for the Solemnity of the
1819 4, 43 | what my Predecessor, the Servant of God Paul VI, wrote on
1820 5, 60 | Redemptor Hominis and which serves as one of the constant reference-points
1821 6, 77 | to indicate philosophy's servile submission or purely functional
1822 5, 62(87) | Apostolici Regimini Sollicitudo, Session VIII: Conciliorum Oecumenicorum
1823 3, 29 | not give up in the face of setbacks. They do not judge their
1824 4, 43 | wrote on the occasion of the seventh centenary of the death of
1825 7, 89 | anthropology itself is severely compromised by a one-dimensional
1826 4, 42 | of one's certainty is not shaken in the least if the intellect
1827 | shall
1828 2, 23 | foolish in the world to shame the wise...; God chose what
1829 5, 51 | if its formulations are shaped by history and produced
1830 6, 71 | turn little by little to shaping that context. To every culture
1831 Int, 2(1) | I wrote: “We have become sharers in this mission of the prophet
1832 7, 81 | capability demands a renewed and sharpened sense of ultimate values.
1833 2, 16 | is at work in them. Faith sharpens the inner eye, opening the
1834 5, 54 | their origins “outside the sheepfold of Christ”.68 He added,
1835 2, 16 | her boughs; by her he is sheltered from the heat and he dwells
1836 Int, 5 | research to lose its way in the shifting sands of widespread scepticism.
1837 4, 47 | the wake of these cultural shifts, some philosophers have
1838 Conc, 104 | philosophy in which there shines even a glimmer of the truth
1839 2, 23 | they run it aground on the shoals of a system of their own
1840 5, 53 | the First Vatican Council showed how inseparable and at the
1841 7, 85 | Pastors, and they cannot shrink from their duty to undertake
1842 7, 83 | Therefore, a philosophy which shuns metaphysics would be radically
1843 4, 48 | offers, reason has taken side-tracks which expose it to the danger
1844 1, 13 | indissoluble unity between the signifier and signified makes it possible
1845 7, 96(113)| category of them) cannot signify the truth in a determinate
1846 4, 39 | assumed a wholly new meaning, signifying now the reflection undertaken
1847 Int, 2(1) | its profundity joined with simplicity”: No. 19: AAS 71 (1979),
1848 2, 19 | their free will and their sinfulness place an impediment in the
1849 7, 91 | may live as a demiurge, single-handedly and completely taking charge
1850 2, 16 | these pages which are so singularly rich in deep intuition.~
1851 Conc, 108 | the table at which faith sits in thought”. 132 In her
1852 7, 80 | included—leads to dramatic situations which subvert the rational
1853 5, 52(57) | of Braga I, DS 459-460; Sixtus V, Bull Coeli et Terrae
1854 6, 75 | appears from this brief sketch of the history of the relationship
1855 Int, 3 | question of life's meaning and sketching an answer to it. Philosophy
1856 6, 75 | rejected by the theory of so-called “separate” philosophy, pursued
1857 3, 26 | insignificant that the death of Socrates gave philosophy one of its
1858 6, 70 | no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are saints and
1859 5, 53 | and concluded with the solemn assertion quoted earlier: “
1860 1, 13(16) | Sequence for the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of
1861 7, 90 | destructive will to power or to a solitude without hope. Once the truth
1862 5, 62(87) | Bull Apostolici Regimini Sollicitudo, Session VIII: Conciliorum
1863 6, 74 | scholars such as Vladimir S. Soloviev, Pavel A. Florensky, Petr
1864 1, 14 | greater can be conceived (non solum es quo maius cogitari nequit),
1865 7, 91 | field, but has remained somewhat ambiguous, both because
1866 5, 61 | to light, together with sophisticated modes of thinking, an array
1867 4, 38 | rendering the attack of sophistry impotent and in disarming
1868 Int, 1 | tragedies of Euripides and Sophocles, as they do in the philosophical
1869 2, 22 | into thinking themselves sovereign and autonomous, and into
1870 2, 18 | God” whose transcendent sovereignty and provident love in the
1871 5, 49 | and partial theories which sow the seed of serious error,
1872 6, 79(96) | Idem, De Fide, Spe et Caritate, 7: CCL 64,
1873 5, 56 | subdivided into so many specialized fields, it is not hard to
1874 3, 35 | alone which allows us to specify correctly the relationship
1875 Int, 4 | philosophy's work, the ability to speculate which is proper to the human
1876 6, 76 | reason's scope for action.~In speculating on these questions, philosophers
1877 5, 52 | superstition found in astrological speculations,57 without forgetting the
1878 4, 37 | according to the elemental spirits of the universe and not
1879 4, 44 | verum a quocumque dicatur a Spiritu Sancto est) 50 Saint Thomas
1880 4, 44(48) | unde inter septem dona Spiritus Sancti connumeratur”.~
1881 7, 85 | segmentation of knowledge, with its splintered approach to truth and consequent
1882 5, 49 | People of God, begin to spread more widely.~
1883 Int, 4 | fundamental elements of knowledge spring from the wonder awakened
1884 3, 33(28) | his rational nature. It springs from the profound human
1885 4, 42 | desire for truth, therefore, spurs reason always to go further;
1886 6, 76 | philosophy of history which stakes its claim as a new chapter
1887 5, 52 | believers and remains today a standard reference-point for correct
1888 7, 96(112)| this knowledge, like a star, gave enlightenment to the
1889 2, 19 | the constellations of the stars, the natures of animals
1890 5, 59 | produced a philosophy which, starting with an analysis of immanence,
1891 1, 11 | Constitution Dei Verbum when it states that “as the centuries succeed
1892 3, 24 | philosophers was full of statues of various idols. One altar
1893 4, 44 | and, precisely because it stays consistently within the
1894 6, 74 | Étienne Gilson and Edith Stein and, in an Eastern context,
1895 7, 98 | of the contemporary world stem from a crisis of truth.
1896 7, 97 | times, without lapsing into sterile repetition of antiquated
1897 5, 51 | therefore intervenes in order to stimulate philosophical enquiry, lest
1898 3, 34(29) | the depths of his spirit, stimulated him, anticipating and assisting
1899 7, 81 | in fact most helpful in stimulating philosophy to conform to
1900 7, 92 | the prospect of support, stimulation and increase (cf. Eph 4:
1901 7, 83 | two requirements already stipulated imply a third: the need
1902 3, 34(29) | presence of the Creator who, stirring in the depths of his spirit,
1903 4, 36 | with “certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers” (17:18); and
1904 4, 36 | deriving for the most part from Stoicism. This is by no means accidental.
1905 4, 40 | Reinforced by his personal story and sustained by a wonderful
1906 4, 38 | philosophy was therefore neither straight-forward nor immediate. The practice
1907 2, 21 | truth was not without the strain which comes once the limits
1908 6, 76 | rational lying far beyond the straits within which it would normally
1909 7, 99 | insights drawn from the various strands of philosophy; and such
1910 Int, 2 | 2. The Church is no stranger to this journey of discovery,
1911 6, 70 | Paul: “You are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you
1912 Int, 4 | temptation to identify one single stream with the whole of philosophy.
1913 1, 12 | death, if not in the light streaming from the mystery of Christ'
1914 5, 52 | duty to counter various streams of modern thought with a
1915 4, 38 | its contribution, does not strengthen truth; but, in rendering
1916 6, 75 | should be supported and strengthened. As a search for truth within
1917 5, 54 | Saint Pius X are pertinent, stressing as they did that at the
1918 2, 22 | path to full truth would be strewn with obstacles. From that
1919 2, 16 | most explicitly. What is striking about these biblical texts,
1920 6, 71 | the Gospel would seek to strip it of its native riches
1921 6, 76 | Christian philosophers who have striven in their research not to
1922 4, 38(33) | Stromata I, 18, 90, 1: SC 30, 115.~
1923 6, 79 | help lead believers to a stronger conviction that faith grows
1924 6, 65 | 65. Theology is structured as an understanding of faith
1925 Int, 2 | partner in humanity's shared struggle to arrive at truth; 2 and
1926 5, 60 | taught in such a way that students acquire in the first place
1927 4, 44(48) | Praeterea, haec doctrina per studium acquiritur. Sapientia autem
1928 6, 67 | knowledge of these truths. In studying Revelation and its credibility,
1929 Int, 6 | This is why many people stumble through life to the very
1930 5, 62 | Metaphysicae of Francisco Suárez, which found its way even
1931 5, 56 | objective reality. In a world subdivided into so many specialized
1932 7, 88 | they are not ignored, are subjected to analyses based on superficial
1933 7, 98 | ethics which is neither subjectivist nor utilitarian. Such an
1934 Int, 5 | concern to investigate human subjectivity, seems to have forgotten
1935 7, 89 | decisions of humanity are subordinated to decisions taken one after
1936 Conc, 105 | Vatican Council 129 and subsequent legislation, which speak
1937 6, 79 | splendour emanating from subsistent Being itself, revealed truth
1938 3, 29 | they are no different in substance from the answers to which
1939 7, 80 | dramatic situations which subvert the rational search for
1940 1, 11 | states that “as the centuries succeed one another, the Church
1941 Int, 6 | truth, preferring quick success to the toil of patient enquiry
1942 Int, 4 | philosophical schools. Once reason successfully intuits and formulates the
1943 4, 46 | technological progress, seem to succumb not only to a market-based
1944 4, 41 | with one culture perhaps succumbing to the fascination of the
1945 6, 76 | it in no way intends to suggest that there is an official
1946 5, 63 | 63. For the reasons suggested here, it has seemed to me
1947 3, 32 | acquired by other people. This suggests an important tension. On
1948 5, 52(59) | Ludovico Eugenio Bautain iussu sui Episcopi subscriptae (8
1949 Conc, 105 | field necessarily entails a suitable scholarly preparation, a
1950 3, 33(28) | human existence, since they summon human intelligence and will
1951 5, 53 | knowledge: “Even if faith is superior to reason there can never
1952 5, 60 | explains the dignity and superiority of the human being over
1953 4, 42 | incomprehensibile esse) how supernal wisdom knows its own accomplishments...,
1954 4, 36 | prime beneficiary of this. Superstitions were recognized for what
1955 6, 75 | this aspiration should be supported and strengthened. As a search
1956 2, 21 | world and of history, but supposes as well an indispensable
1957 4, 43 | doubt, Thomas possessed supremely the courage of the truth,
1958 4, 37 | who were perfect. It is surely this kind of esoteric speculation
1959 5, 55 | distrust of reason which has surfaced in the most recent developments
1960 5, 61 | cannot fail to note with surprise and displeasure that this
1961 5, 55 | 55. Surveying the situation today, we
1962 6, 73 | itself it would not even have suspected it could take. This circular
1963 3, 33 | friendship. A climate of suspicion and distrust, which can
1964 5, 55 | allow themselves to be swayed uncritically by assertions
1965 2, 22 | good and evil” (2:17). The symbol is clear: man was in no
1966 7, 80(97) | Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon, Symbolum, Definitio: DS 302.~
1967 5, 55 | One currently widespread symptom of this fideistic tendency
1968 Int, 5 | today's most widespread symptoms of the lack of confidence
1969 5, 52(56) | Cf. Synod of Constantinople, DS 403.~
1970 5, 59 | lasting value. Some devised syntheses so remarkable that they
1971 5, 53 | understanding of faith. In synthesizing and solemnly reaffirming
1972 Conc, 108 | when they called Mary “the table at which faith sits in thought”. 132
1973 7, 92 | problems which today need to be tackled demands a joint effort—approached,
1974 3, 30 | Jesus Christ. But before tackling that question, one last
1975 5, 55 | the point where there is talk at times of “the end of
1976 7, 88 | think that if something is technically possible it is therefore
1977 1, 15 | and the constrictions of a technocratic logic. It is the ultimate
1978 1, 11 | might dwell among them and tell them the innermost realities
1979 7, 81 | world, often of a scientific temper, have so proliferated that
1980 2, 19 | natures of animals and the tempers of wild beasts” (Wis 7:17,
1981 Int, 1 | yourself was carved on the temple portal at Delphi, as testimony
1982 5, 50 | fulfilling a humble but tenacious ministry of service which
1983 4, 47 | of his intellect and the tendencies of his will. All too soon,
1984 5, 50 | whether or not the basic tenets of these different schools
1985 3, 32 | This suggests an important tension. On the one hand, the knowledge
1986 2, 16 | her walls; he pitches his tent near her and so finds an
1987 2, 16 | her house and fastens his tent-peg to her walls; he pitches
1988 7, 91 | demonstrated.~Our age has been termed by some thinkers the age
1989 5, 52(57) | Sixtus V, Bull Coeli et Terrae Creator (5 January 1586):
1990 6, 76 | continued working on their own terrain and with their own purely
1991 7, 91 | justified in a sense by the terrible experience of evil which
1992 1, 11(9) | Apostolic Letter Tertio Millennio Adveniente (10
1993 Conc, 108(132)| He noera tes pisteos trapeza”: Pseudo-Epiphanius,
1994 1, 7 | received in faith (cf. 1 Th 2:13). At the origin of
1995 Conc, 105 | science of theology. I wish to thank them for their service to
1996 6, 66 | less true of the different themes of moral theology, which
1997 4, 36 | expression in poetry; and the theogonies remain the first evidence
1998 5, 60(84) | 366-368; Decree Sacra Theologia (20 January 1972): AAS 64 (
1999 5, 55 | reappeared. In some contemporary theologies, for instance, a certain
2000 6, 72 | humanity moves into the future. Thirdly, care will need to be taken