tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8605839.post115842182957299767..comments2023-09-03T10:27:50.770-05:00Comments on Personal Musings of Priestly Goth: Pope Benedict XVI and Islamic FuryCommunity of the Holy Trinityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15327079170088324442noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8605839.post-1158503301860166532006-09-17T09:28:00.000-05:002006-09-17T09:28:00.000-05:00I would take Pope Benedicts words to be in the "be...I would take Pope Benedicts words to be in the "believe to understand" position of the role for reason. So I would argue that reason is neither the higher aim nor something to overcome. Or it is both the higher aim and someting to overcome. If by "reason" you mean the Logos of God, then it is our aim, if you mean by reason merely the human faculty also dominated by Sin and Death then it is something to struggle to overcome.<BR/>I read the popes lecture as firmly placing the sciences and reason within the realm of faith, specifically the Christian faith, reminding these University professors from whence their institution has come and what he believes to be its surrest way forward, that is to continue within that context of reason bounded by Christian faith.Community of the Holy Trinityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15327079170088324442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8605839.post-1158489674034630292006-09-17T05:41:00.000-05:002006-09-17T05:41:00.000-05:00Here is a quotation for you. That earth and that h...Here is a quotation for you.<BR/><BR/> That earth and that heaven, which spent God himself, <BR/>Almighty God, six days in finishing, Moses sets up in a few <BR/>syllables, in one line: In the beginning God created heaven <BR/>and earth. If a Livie or a Guicciardine, or such extensive and <BR/>voluminous authors had had this story in hand, God must have <BR/>made another world, to have made them a library to hold their <BR/>books, of the making of this world. Into what wire would they <BR/>have drawn out this earth! Into what leaf-gold would they have <BR/>beat out these heavens! It may assist our conjecture herein, <BR/>to consider, that amongst those men, who proceed with a sober <BR/>modesty and limitation in their writing, & make a conscience <BR/>not to clog the world with unnecessary books, yet the volumes <BR/>which are written by them, upon the beginning of Genesis, are <BR/>scarce less than infinite. God did no more but say, Let this & <BR/>this be done; and Moses doth no more but say, that upon God's <BR/>saying it was done. God required not Nature to help him to do <BR/>it; Moses required not Reason to help him believe.<BR/> ... John Donne (1573-1631), XXVIII in Fifty Sermons<BR/><BR/>So, is reason the higer aim? Or is it something we struggle to overcome?Tripp Hudginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02987346084472861229noreply@blogger.com