Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 72 No. 1, 2002.
Review article
The Natural Cognition of God. A Rewiev of Catholic and Protestant Standpoints After the Vatican I
Slavko Platz
; Catholic Faculty of Theology in Djakovo, University of Josip Juraj Strossmayer, Djakovo, Croatia
Abstract
This article analyses relation between faith and intellect in the natural cogniton of God after the Vatican I (1869-1870). The Council has defined the ability of the human intellect (mind) for a natural cognition of God. Subsequent papal encyclical letters added that God can be comprehendend and proved by the natural light of intellect. The Council definition is based on the Bible: The Book of Wisdom, The Epistle to the Romans etc. The Vatican I believed (considered) that the natural cognition is to be defined de iure, but left open the question does it de facto happen.
Protestant theology, especially Karl Barth (1886-1968), based on biblical grounds, rejects any possibility of natural cognition, and not after a detailed gnoseological critique. We propose a different antropological interpretation of analogy. According to this the liberty in span between the limited and absolute reaches his primary analogate.
Keywords
natural cognition of God; The Vatican I; revelation; analogy; liberty
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29012
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Publication date:
15.1.2003.
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