“For an encounter with another person, through acts of knowing and love, in freedom,” the Polish Dominican philosopher Mieczylaw Krapiec wrote, in his remarkable Philosophical Anthropology, “presupposes precisely a personal ‘I’ who actualizes himself through interpersonal communications in the order of being.” This is, no doubt, a complicated way of saying that we are beings … Read more
“In Christianity, however, the human soul is not the seeker but the sought,” C. S. Lewis wrote in his Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature. “It is God who seeks, who descends from the other world to find and heal man.” Sometimes we have a picture of the world in which each of us works … Read more
What happens, metaphysically, I mean, when you go to church and the topic of the sermon is Central America based on Luke 4? Or, like my friend Jim Kline, you are handed at the Mission Church in Santa Clara, a Pax Christi Pledge, while you work for the real peace movement, Lockheed? How are you … Read more
Christianity has been called the most materialistic religion in history. That is an illuminating point. For Christianity is so much more than a moral code, a recipe for virtue, a system of comfortable idealistic thought. It is a religion of acts and facts…. For Christianity is a religion of things that have happened — A … Read more
Nor could Mrs. Thatcher forget, she said, the Berlin Wall (of which her first sight last month so powerfully impressed her.) It was “a grim monument to a cruel and desolate creed, concrete evidence that the Communists know that when people are free to choose, they choose to be free. ∼ The Times, London, Nov. … Read more