Sentences with phrase «ut intelligam»
Downing writes that «it brings us back to the credo ut intelligam (I believe in order to understand) of Augustine and Anselm.»
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It helps massively the great current heresy, «When I understand it, I will believe it»; «Credo ut intelligam» back to front.
Credo ut intelligam, believe in order that you may understand, was the motto of most medieval philosophy and theology, even of late scholasticism.
He explicitly rejects the principle of credo ut intelligam on the grounds of the fundamental contradiction between revelation and reason.
The operative principle of evolution is credo et spero ut intelligam.