Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.34075/sb.59.3.1
Fede e ragione: un'enciclica interroga il postcristianesimo
Gianluigi Pasquale
orcid.org/0000-0003-4538-9112
; Papinsko Sveučilište Lateran
Abstract
The article assumes five thesis grafted into the longest
Encyclical Letter written by St. John Paul II (1920-2005) exactly
twenty years after its promulgation (1998-2018), «Fides et ratio»
concerning the relationships between faith and reason. Some
have being discovered during the past twenty years, others are
unpublished. With the first one, man underlines the complete
autonomy of philosophy with respect to Christian theology, as the
science of the faith that thinks of itself, the reason why theological
knowledge is not linked to any kind of philosophy, which means,
it uses the philosophy «qua talis». With the second it is reiterated
the consciousness that faith without the «recta ratio» – today
muddened and weakened by the society of technology – could
do nothing without the logos it has been equipped with since the
beginning. Thus, with the third thesis we (de)monstrate that, in
order to prevent the reproductive thought from continuing to infinity,
they find in the embodied form of the logos - Jesus Christ – the
only «fulfillment» of their own research. The fourth thesis reveals
something that had escaped until a few months ago, namely the
insistence of «Fides et ratio» to open up to other cultures, besides the rather secularized Christian one, like the Indian or Asian one,
there being a «ratio». With the fifth thesis , equally unpublished, it is
recognized that only an «ethical reason» or amicable, responsible,
fiducial, in fact, can allow the faith to reach that level of revelation
which it longs for: in the person of Jesus Christ.
Keywords
Fides et ratio; Relations between Philosophy and Theology; Phenomenology and Hermeneutics of the Christian Event; Philosophical and Christological «logos»; Mystery as new Category of Revelation; Post Christianity;
Hrčak ID:
225242
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Publication date:
16.9.2019.
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