Great stuff from Ben 16, even if he doesn't want to acknowledge me as any but a separated bro:
...Faith does not make reason superfluous, but it can contribute evidence of essential values. Through the experiment of a life in faith, these values acquire a credibility that also illuminates and heals reason. In the last century (as in every century), it was in fact the testimony of the martyrs that limited the excesses of power, thus making a decisive contribution to what we might call the convalescence of reason. Values in a Time of Upheaval, p. 29
So long as they aren't Protestant martyrs, I guess..!
I think this idea of faith healing reason is quite a contribution. Martyrs, by showing in extremis that human power is relative, temporal and not as powerful as it thinks it is, actually contribute to general human flourishing. That is, they are not anti-social, but rather help politics learn its true meaning for the greater human good.
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Nice thought Michael. Reminds me of something Gutiérrez once said about faith preceeding reason because 'theology is an understanding of the faith. It is a rereading of the word of God as that word is lived in the Christian community” so that “we can separate theological reflection neither from the Christian community nor from the world in which that community lives'.
How's the new PC?
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