Looking for the Truth
Human beings are inquisitive and toil away to find the answers to questions that they hold dear to them. These questions include reasons for why humans exist or for why there is so much suffering in the world. As humans seek further into divulging the causes, they are simultaneously continuing their search for finding God through theology. There is a bond between theology and humans seeking meaning in their existence; when humans search for a deeper understanding, they are at the same time searching for a deeper understanding of God. In his chapter,” Discerning the Mystery of God”, in Theological Foundations, Brian D. Robinette makes three points relating to the perpetual binding between the two. Robinette’s first point …show more content…
According to John C. Cavadini’s article, “Why Study God?” in Commonweal, this “witness” is meant to represent the teaching that occurs in a classroom, where the students are able to be exposed to the knowledge that allows them to have an intellectual conversation on questions that encompass human life in a rational fashion without having faith prohibited from the discussion (17). Robinette may consider these deliberations as part of his third main point, where he mentions the importance of dialogue. According to him, an important process to understand theology and “animate the present text” is to converse in order to make “these questions more explicit and rigorous” (Robinette 35-36). These verbal exchanges provide students a gateway into engage in a centuries-old discourse, allowing them to question, reflect, as well as acquire and provide any new insight to unearth more truths. In a Catholic institution, theology acts as a department for finding truths within human comprehension; these truths are found based on God’s “self-revelation [and] ‘understanding’ what God has revealed” as opposed to just Scripture since not all of the ancient texts are universally accepted and had to go through intense examination if they are (Cavadini
Human beings are inquisitive and toil away to find the answers to questions that they hold dear to them. These questions include reasons for why humans exist or for why there is so much suffering in the world. As humans seek further into divulging the causes, they are simultaneously continuing their search for finding God through theology. There is a bond between theology and humans seeking meaning in their existence; when humans search for a deeper understanding, they are at the same time searching for a deeper understanding of God. In his chapter,” Discerning the Mystery of God”, in Theological Foundations, Brian D. Robinette makes three points relating to the perpetual binding between the two. Robinette’s first point …show more content…
According to John C. Cavadini’s article, “Why Study God?” in Commonweal, this “witness” is meant to represent the teaching that occurs in a classroom, where the students are able to be exposed to the knowledge that allows them to have an intellectual conversation on questions that encompass human life in a rational fashion without having faith prohibited from the discussion (17). Robinette may consider these deliberations as part of his third main point, where he mentions the importance of dialogue. According to him, an important process to understand theology and “animate the present text” is to converse in order to make “these questions more explicit and rigorous” (Robinette 35-36). These verbal exchanges provide students a gateway into engage in a centuries-old discourse, allowing them to question, reflect, as well as acquire and provide any new insight to unearth more truths. In a Catholic institution, theology acts as a department for finding truths within human comprehension; these truths are found based on God’s “self-revelation [and] ‘understanding’ what God has revealed” as opposed to just Scripture since not all of the ancient texts are universally accepted and had to go through intense examination if they are (Cavadini