Sentences with phrase «rational love of truth»
They unite our rational love of truth with our supernatural love of God.
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If this means that a normal, sane, rational, loving human being would NOT accept any god that relishes babies being ripped out from their mothers» wombs, who orders his chosen guys to eat barley cake and dung sandwiches, who slaughters infants because their country's king is being a dick, and all the rest of the vile pornographic bloody primitive B.S. in the «Good Book,» but that nevertheless it's the «truth... welcome to it.
The human person is, first and foremost, rational in nature, and fulfillment lies in fuller knowledge (plus, of course, the love that is merited by every truth one appropriates).
The most important application of this truth to our present problem is the conclusion that the search for rational ethical order is not a contradiction of Christian love.
The relation of love to the intellect proceeds from three assumption: first, that faith transcends rational categories through God's self - revelation in Christ; second, that intellectual understanding is necessary for the guidance of human life; and third, that both seek the same object in God's being and His revealed truth — namely, that it is through agape with its consequent repentance, humility, and understanding of human limits that the intellect can appropriately function.