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- Title
Essay on the Relation of Faith to Reason.
- Authors
Donald J. Keefe, S. J.
- Abstract
The following essay, published here for the first time, was written by Donald Keefe in 1993 as a response to a position paper he refers to as DFF, in which the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith laid out some of the themes that would comprise the heart of John Paul II's encyclical letter, Fides et Ratio. One theme that attracted Keefe's particular attention was the idea of intellectual evangelization, of belief addressing unbelief in the arena of contemporary thought and culture. However, Keefe cautions, one must not be too quick to assume, as the DFF does, that metaphysics as such can provide the common ground necessary for the conversation to take place. Even a philosophy of being must first be converted before it can produce the language needed for a discussion that will accommodate the claim, insisted upon by the gospel, that the freedom that defines the human as personal can have no other basis than the fact of its having been created by the Father, through the Spirit, in the Son to whom everything has been given, Jesus Christ, who in turn gives unreservedly everything he has received back to the Father, and does so Eucharistically, that is, in and through the individuals in their historical lives who in free exercise of will have been united in one life with him.
- Subjects
FAITH; DOCTRINAL theology; METAPHYSICS; JESUS Christ; KEEFE, Donald
- Publication
Saint Anselm Journal, 2016, Vol 12, Issue 1, p81
- ISSN
2689-6230
- Publication type
Article