As a scholar, I can not help but lament the loss of this portion of the Christian
Intellectual Tradition, which seems to be vanishing in our generation.
You've been an advocate for
the intellectual tradition within Christianity, but you also seem keen to promote the miraculous; the experiential side
They speak instead of things like «the Catholic
intellectual tradition.»
Never mind that the Christian
intellectual tradition is more than «Western» in the usual use of the term, and never mind that there is nothing more uniquely Western than the pattern of self - criticism that easily turns into self - denigration, it is true that Christianity is undeniably and foundationally entangled with the West, and that is enough, in the minds of many writers, to put it beyond the pale.
There is a formidable Christian
intellectual tradition addressing these questions; it includes, inter alia, figures so estimable as Origen, Irenaeus, Thomas Aquinas, Teilhard, and, in our own day, thinkers such as Wolfhart Pannenberg.
Von Balthasar's aesthetics displays, perhaps, more intellectual virtuosity, but Maritain's has the advantage of being within the ongoing
intellectual tradition of Thomism.
Robert L. Wilken's «The Christian
Intellectual Tradition» (June - July) touches on the central issue of religion and public life: truth.
Calvinists, he notes, have a richer theological and
intellectual tradition that equips them to be more effective ecumenical interlocutors.
The Christian
intellectual tradition has the sweep and grandeur of the Cathedral of Notre Dame; it is a space of cavernous beauty and monumental profundity.
The architecture of the Christian
intellectual tradition admits of careful parsing.
At a later time, within a different
intellectual tradition, the author of Job poses in a dramatic fashion the difficulty of believing in a god like the Yahweh of the exodus.
Assert the superiority of your own
intellectual tradition.
But fair is fair, and just because Benedict starts with the Church doesn't make him any more fanatical than the atheist who starts with atheism and the atheist
intellectual tradition.
Once more St. Augustine's Press of South Bend, Indiana, is to be commended for giving new currency to treasures of the Christian
intellectual tradition.
The Christian
intellectual tradition does not begin with the publication of Lewis» Mere Christianity or with the founding of L'Abri in 1954.
Jolanta Babiuch explains part of
the intellectual tradition from which Pope John Paul II emerged, the pre-War dialogue between Marxists and personalist philosophy.
«The bulk of the Regensburg address was directed to Christian intellectuals who, in the name of «de-Hellenizing» Christianity, pit biblical faith against the great synthesis of faith and reason achieved over the centuries of the Christian
intellectual tradition.
And those traditions are not simply
intellectual traditions but integral parts of complex practices of speech, thought, worship and morally responsible action.
Examining the Catholic
Intellectual Tradition.
The oriental traditions too have
their intellectual tradition but in America today there is much less emphasis on studying the sutras, say, than on the practice of meditation.
On his account, the Gilsonian paradigm blossomed as a fruit of the Magisterium's solicitude for preserving and promoting the philosophical realism of the Christian
intellectual tradition.
Could the real story be found not in any «failure of nerve,» but in the rise of a largely consistent
intellectual tradition?
But the bulk of the Regensburg address was directed to Christian intellectuals who, in the name of «de-Hellenizing» Christianity, pit biblical faith against the great synthesis of faith and reason achieved over the centuries of the Christian
intellectual tradition.
The study of NT, however, still remains as a branch within
the intellectual tradition of the Western Enlightenment era.
I sought to familiarize myself with
these intellectual traditions, to ascertain what were the recurrent issues in the study of ethics and to identify categories and methods which could be helpful in conducting a study of biblical ethics.
But be forewarned, von Balthasar would say:
these intellectual traditions and forms need to stretch and grow in order to make room for Christianity.
Third, there was a dynamic and vital Catholic literary and
intellectual tradition visibly at work in the culture.
Christianity does indeed have its own culture, its own
intellectual tradition, its own liturgy and songs, its own moral teachings and distinctive ways of life, both personal and communal.
When Girard's thought is coordinated with Kierkegaard's, the result is a very strong testimony to the power of the Christian
intellectual tradition as a resource for understanding the psychology of violence.
At last we have lost the thread of
an intellectual tradition that leads all the way back to the Reformation itself» a Reformation led, as Jaroslav Pelikan once reminded us, by a «cadre of intellectuals.»
For me, the prime attraction was attending a school that took its Catholic identity seriously and would educate me in the faith's
intellectual tradition.
The intellectual tradition of the Sophists (alike criticized by the loyal Erasmus and the exiled Luther), along with other elements of church tradition, had drifted so far that it no longer convincingly centered on that which was revealed.
Struggling to give revelation its proper place, they also lost (not at first, and never altogether, but at length) fifteen hundred years of Catholic
intellectual tradition, a tradition that bothered itself with the iotas, and whether or not Mary should be referred to as the God - bearer (the Theotokos), and what precisely is the Pelagian error and what is not, and whether the two natures of Christ conflict with the unity of his person, and so on.
But I do not see how it is consistent with the Catholic
intellectual tradition.
The Catholic
intellectual tradition's rigorous examination of theology and philosophy undoubtedly appealed to his acquisitive mind.
If there is any version of Christianity that has a deep and serious
intellectual tradition, it is Catholicism.
They are uniquely qualified to preserve the most precious of legacies: the Western
intellectual tradition, which is linked to an openness to the human condition wherever it is found....
But for our purposes here, Origen is the most illuminating because he stands at the beginning of the Christian
intellectual tradition.
This assumes that we know what to do with our freedom, that we have the ability to see the limits of politics and of all worldly aspiration, and that we can enjoy the enormous riches of both the created world and of our own
intellectual tradition.
The demands of «the human spirit for the time include authentic understandings, many of them rooted in the Gospels and in the deepest Christian
intellectual traditions, about the nature of human existents.
This is
an intellectual tradition.
Robert Royal is President of the Washington - based Faith and Reason Institute and the author of numerous books, including The Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century: A Comprehensive World History and the forthcoming study, A Deeper Vision: The Catholic
Intellectual Tradition in the Twentieth Century.
To answer the question merely in terms of having a clergyman as president, a crucifix in every classroom, and a chapel in every residence hall is to abandon a rich
intellectual tradition.
Roman Catholics are in a better position than anyone else to look to their own
intellectual tradition for guidance in understanding what it means to attain academic excellence.
In fact, it has done nothing of the kind, for it has failed to develop
an intellectual tradition in America or to produce its own class of intellectuals capable either of exercising authority among Catholics or of mediating between the Catholic mind and the secular or Protestant mind.
Benedict on faith, reason, and culture; the president of the Catholic University of America, John Garvey, on the Catholic university; the poet Paul Mariani on the Catholic imagination; and Robert Imbelli on the Catholic
intellectual tradition are among the writings that can be found in C21 Resources, an occasional magazine published by the Church in the 21st Century Center at Boston College.
R. N. Whybray prefers to use the expression «
Intellectual Tradition» vi.
In making this judgment they were shaped, as all Christians are, by
the intellectual tradition centered on the question, «What is the best life for a human being?
The group's most recent venture featured a lecture by a distinguished historian of Christian thought on the Christian
intellectual tradition.
Complementarity between man and woman is a fundamental principle in Judaism, in other religions, in some non-religious
intellectual traditions in the organization of society, as well as in the opinion of a very large majority of the population.