Sublime

Marsiglio, on the contrary, still aims at preserving the unity of the Catholic faith, but wishes this to be done by democratic means, not by the papal absolutism. In practice, most Protestants, when they acquired the government, merely substituted the King for the Pope, and thus secured neither liberty of private judgement nor a democratic method o

the Manicheans prided themselves on their refusal to submit to any authority outside of their own reason, which was not so different from the rallying cry of Immanuel Kant’s essay “Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?” fourteen centuries later: Sapere aude! Have the courage to use your own reason! It’s the same watchword used today by tho

John O’Donohue, a former Irish Catholic priest, philosopher, poet, and, in his own words, mystic

They investigate the past and relate the struggles of the apostles and the Fathers to our present struggles. Thus they become defenders of the faith, showing its reasonableness, its “fittingness” for the oppressed community now.

This may sound way too mystical for your persuasion, but to put all my cards on the table, I’m with the theologian Karl Rahner, who said, “The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.”[44] You know why I think he’s right? Because the Christian of the past was a mystic. And if we don’t recapture contemplation, we “will n

Biblical Philosophy In Biblical Philosophy, Dru Johnson examines how the texts of Christian Scripture argue philosophically with ancient and modern readers alike. He demonstrates how biblical literature bears the distinct markers of a philosophical style in its use of literary and philosophical strategies to reason about the nature of reality and o

The Church found a way of living with the unexplained delay, because