Apart from the differences in culture, race or religion, all men the same questions about their own identity, their origin, their destination, the existence of evil, the enigma that follows death arises. That is, find an ultimate truth that gives meaning to your life. For much of the current thinking, however, it is a wild goose chase, for man would be unable to reach the truth.
This is the starting point that has given rise to the thirteenth encyclical of John Paul II, which was published on 15 October. The Pope wants to step out of this cultural situation that has shaped a way of thinking according to which everything is subjective: the truth would be the result of consensus. It is a climate of uncertainty that affects everyone, …show more content…
Recalls that "besides their knowledge of human reason, by their nature able to reach the Creator, there is a knowledge which is peculiar to faith." There are two truths that are not confused, not one makes the other superfluous. Revelation to express the mystery, urges reason to intuit some reasons she can not pretend to exhaust, but only welcome.
In addition, outside this perspective, the mystery of human existence remains an insoluble enigma. "Where could man seek the answer to dramatic questions such as pain, the suffering of the innocent and death, if not in the light streaming from the mystery of the passion, death and resurrection of Christ?".
In the second chapter it emphasizes that the peculiarity that distinguishes the biblical text is the conviction that there is a profound and indissoluble unity between the knowledge of reason and faith. It shows how biblical thought, based on this unit, had discovered a royal road to knowledge of the truth: the impossibility of doing without the knowledge offered by God, if you want to fully know the way that every man must travel to meet fundamental questions about
This is the starting point that has given rise to the thirteenth encyclical of John Paul II, which was published on 15 October. The Pope wants to step out of this cultural situation that has shaped a way of thinking according to which everything is subjective: the truth would be the result of consensus. It is a climate of uncertainty that affects everyone, …show more content…
Recalls that "besides their knowledge of human reason, by their nature able to reach the Creator, there is a knowledge which is peculiar to faith." There are two truths that are not confused, not one makes the other superfluous. Revelation to express the mystery, urges reason to intuit some reasons she can not pretend to exhaust, but only welcome.
In addition, outside this perspective, the mystery of human existence remains an insoluble enigma. "Where could man seek the answer to dramatic questions such as pain, the suffering of the innocent and death, if not in the light streaming from the mystery of the passion, death and resurrection of Christ?".
In the second chapter it emphasizes that the peculiarity that distinguishes the biblical text is the conviction that there is a profound and indissoluble unity between the knowledge of reason and faith. It shows how biblical thought, based on this unit, had discovered a royal road to knowledge of the truth: the impossibility of doing without the knowledge offered by God, if you want to fully know the way that every man must travel to meet fundamental questions about