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A Comprehensible UniverseChristianity on the Scene

A Comprehensible Universe: Christianity on the Scene [If it is true that European culture was born from the encounter of Greek philosophy with biblical tradition, we are very close to its birthplace. Only one more factor is needed, the appearance of Christianity. History reveals a tension, very typical for Christianity, between its fundamental claim about God’s appearance in human history and a philosophical pursuit of the new vision of the world. The new theology had no choice: elements of Greek philosophy had to enter into the construction of its very foundations. A linguistic revolution turned out to be indispensable: technical terms, already well established in Greek philosophy, had to change their meanings to adapt themselves to the needs of Christian theology. This linguistic crisis was profound: religious doctrines of their very nature have a transcendental reference and are stubbornly resistant to all attempts to imprison them by words. This tension is a source of all future conflicts between “faith and reason.” And conflicts of this kind are irremovable, in the sense that there will always be a lack of proportion between the means of expression and what has to be expressed. Christian faith is authentic only if it incorporates into itself this fundamental gap.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Comprehensible UniverseChristianity on the Scene

A Comprehensible Universe — Jan 1, 2008
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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© Springer-Verlag 2008
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978-3-540-77624-6
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35 –39
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10.1007/978-3-540-77626-0_6
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[If it is true that European culture was born from the encounter of Greek philosophy with biblical tradition, we are very close to its birthplace. Only one more factor is needed, the appearance of Christianity. History reveals a tension, very typical for Christianity, between its fundamental claim about God’s appearance in human history and a philosophical pursuit of the new vision of the world. The new theology had no choice: elements of Greek philosophy had to enter into the construction of its very foundations. A linguistic revolution turned out to be indispensable: technical terms, already well established in Greek philosophy, had to change their meanings to adapt themselves to the needs of Christian theology. This linguistic crisis was profound: religious doctrines of their very nature have a transcendental reference and are stubbornly resistant to all attempts to imprison them by words. This tension is a source of all future conflicts between “faith and reason.” And conflicts of this kind are irremovable, in the sense that there will always be a lack of proportion between the means of expression and what has to be expressed. Christian faith is authentic only if it incorporates into itself this fundamental gap.]

Published: Jan 1, 2008

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