It goes without saying that one should not overlook Archbishop Fisichella's insights into evangelising modalities — not just because he is President of the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelisation but because it is widely understood, especially inside the Vatican, that both he and Cardinal Ratzinger, as he then was, mostly authored
the encyclical Fides et Ratio (aka «Fisichella and Ratzinger»)
Pope St John Paul II's
encyclical Fides et Ratio (believed to be largely drafted by Joseph Ratzinger) made an appeal for this tradition to continue, but it has to be said that there has been little response.
Pope John Paul II outlined the importance of this problem and identified many of its contributing causes in his 1998
encyclical Fides et Ratio.
In
the encyclical Fides et Ratio, our late Holy Father summed up very well the postmodern position in his critique:»... the time of certainties is irrevocably past, and the human being must now learn to live in a horizon of total absence of meaning, where everything is provisional and ephemeral.»
In his 1998
encyclical Fides et Ratio, he again warned that theology needs both analytic rigor and a sapiential dimension drawn from a philosophy of being.
Not exact matches
He even incorporated this document into two of his most influential
encyclicals,
Fides et Ratio and Evangelium Vitae.
This past October, the Pope issued a new
encyclical,
Fides et Ratio (Faith and Reason), with this basic message: Be not afraid of human reason.
Having had an evident hand in the drafting of
Fides et Ratio (Blessed John Paul's
encyclical on faith), however, Ratzinger hardly needed to await the final hour of his pontificate to issue his own
encyclical on this theme.
Philosophers got very excited about the intellectual possibilities in
Fides et Ratio, John Paul II's
encyclical about faith and reason.