A general appraisal (=evaluation), and the third part an appraisal of what Rausch writes on a specific issue: I believe in God.
In chapter three of Thomas Raunchy book, I believe in God, it starts with an opening article of the apostles creed , “ I believe in God the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth((Thomas P. Rausch, SJ, I believe in God ,Publication Year: 200, pp 31-62)” Which is considered as the foundation of everything else which Christians believe. On the other hand, this phrase has been a cause of many debates in the church’s history and today’s world. Many religion have different views of God and how he relates to human beings and the universal. Different arguments has risen between Christians and Atheism on the existence …show more content…
We also believe in God because we accept all God’s revelations to us about himself and his will for humankind. In our contemporary culture, most people has misconception that for one to recognize the existence of God is always a matter of faith, but it does not require faith for one to recognize the existence of God. One is able to know that God exist by deduction from evidence and principles observable in nature(Thomas P. Rausch, SJ, I Believe in God,Publication Year: 2008, pp3-33, My own interpretation). Many thinkers from classical to modern times have certify the existence of God as a matter of reason( Aristotle, Plato, etc.) One of the thinkers who held that man knows God exist though reason was Blaise Pascal. He was thinker , inventor and a mathematician of 17th century. His untimely in Favour of God is formulated as a wager, known as Pascal’s wager. Even though Pascal’s Wager is not a proof for the existence of God, it is a powerful reason for believing in …show more content…
Lewis reminds us, “We don’t believe just because a God exists; we believe because this God exists.”(ww.christianity.com/theology/the-apostles-creed-part-two-god-the-father-almighty.html)
This is exactly what one can observe from Rausch argument on God existence. Rausch present to the reader , that God is absolute, necessary being, who has made known his being to finite beings. Through this revelations , humans come to know God as a pure subsistent being , not as some created idea.This is the essential teachings of the early fathers, that we believe in a God who is almighty, creator of heaven and earth. Rausch , in his argument , he keeps in mind the essential teaching of the early church, which are the core teaching that seems to make up the Apostles creed.
Rausch work also do justice to what one know of the theological tradition.Rausch, historically and spiritual reviewed his argument , by been valid to the church doctrines principles. His argument of God’s existence is gigantic, is the type of work one will expect to find in a fundamental theology work. In his argument , Rausch bases his argument to the great theologians of the early church like Thomas Aquinas, who was great influential theologian and philosopher in the traditional of the early church. He is one of the great philosopher , who argued that reason is found in God.Thomas Aquinas is considered one of the Catholic Church's greatest theologians and philosophers. Pope Benedict XV declared. in his
In chapter three of Thomas Raunchy book, I believe in God, it starts with an opening article of the apostles creed , “ I believe in God the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth((Thomas P. Rausch, SJ, I believe in God ,Publication Year: 200, pp 31-62)” Which is considered as the foundation of everything else which Christians believe. On the other hand, this phrase has been a cause of many debates in the church’s history and today’s world. Many religion have different views of God and how he relates to human beings and the universal. Different arguments has risen between Christians and Atheism on the existence …show more content…
We also believe in God because we accept all God’s revelations to us about himself and his will for humankind. In our contemporary culture, most people has misconception that for one to recognize the existence of God is always a matter of faith, but it does not require faith for one to recognize the existence of God. One is able to know that God exist by deduction from evidence and principles observable in nature(Thomas P. Rausch, SJ, I Believe in God,Publication Year: 2008, pp3-33, My own interpretation). Many thinkers from classical to modern times have certify the existence of God as a matter of reason( Aristotle, Plato, etc.) One of the thinkers who held that man knows God exist though reason was Blaise Pascal. He was thinker , inventor and a mathematician of 17th century. His untimely in Favour of God is formulated as a wager, known as Pascal’s wager. Even though Pascal’s Wager is not a proof for the existence of God, it is a powerful reason for believing in …show more content…
Lewis reminds us, “We don’t believe just because a God exists; we believe because this God exists.”(ww.christianity.com/theology/the-apostles-creed-part-two-god-the-father-almighty.html)
This is exactly what one can observe from Rausch argument on God existence. Rausch present to the reader , that God is absolute, necessary being, who has made known his being to finite beings. Through this revelations , humans come to know God as a pure subsistent being , not as some created idea.This is the essential teachings of the early fathers, that we believe in a God who is almighty, creator of heaven and earth. Rausch , in his argument , he keeps in mind the essential teaching of the early church, which are the core teaching that seems to make up the Apostles creed.
Rausch work also do justice to what one know of the theological tradition.Rausch, historically and spiritual reviewed his argument , by been valid to the church doctrines principles. His argument of God’s existence is gigantic, is the type of work one will expect to find in a fundamental theology work. In his argument , Rausch bases his argument to the great theologians of the early church like Thomas Aquinas, who was great influential theologian and philosopher in the traditional of the early church. He is one of the great philosopher , who argued that reason is found in God.Thomas Aquinas is considered one of the Catholic Church's greatest theologians and philosophers. Pope Benedict XV declared. in his