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The Religious Sense: April 2006
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Sunday, April 23, 2006. Chapter 3: The Impact of Morality on the Dynamic of Knowing. A certain young woman is very good at math. One day she has a test in class. She has a bad stomachache and, on that morning, she does not do well on the exam. Has she suddenly become ignorant? No, she simply has a stomachache. (23). Behind her, making her feel annoyed or worried since she has an idea of who it might be. Is stirred up within us. Everything we perceive or come into contact with touches us somehow. The ...
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At The Origin Of The Christian Claim: August 2006
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At The Origin Of The Christian Claim. Friday, August 11, 2006. Chapter 1: The Religious Creativity of Man. Faced with the ultimate enigma, man has sought to imagine, to define such a mystery in relation to himself, to conceive, therefore, of a way of relating to it, and to express all of the aesthetic reflexes aroused by his imagination of the Ultimate. (11). When Israel was a child I loved him, out of Egypt I called my son. Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, who took them in my arms;. Although the...
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At The Origin Of The Christian Claim: August 2007
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At The Origin Of The Christian Claim. Monday, August 06, 2007. Chapter 4: How the Problem Arose in History. The recorded data we have about the person of Jesus is contained in the Gospels. First off, let us define what the Gospels are not. They are not minute by minute descriptions of events. They are not intended to be precise word for word transcriptions of dialog. They are not news stories or police reports. The Gospel writer's intent is to pass on the memory. Our next question is, "Is it convincing?
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The Religious Sense: July 2006
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006. Chapter 14: Reason's Energy Seeks to Penetrate the Unknown. Reason's highest achievement is the intuition that an explanation exists exceeding the measure of reason itself" (132). This explanation is defined as mystery, an Other which is infinitely greater than I. Even though I can realize this, I still am driven to satisfy my thirst for God, the 'unknowable.' Without this drive, all of life is boredom and meaninglessness. How can we know the truth? St Thomas Aquinas writes in t...
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The Religious Sense: June 2006
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006. Chapter 11: Experience of the Sign. It could be said that the tug we feel towards an ultimate destiny is like an invitation, or a word. In Greek, "logos" means word, and "ana" means up, therefore giving us "analogy," or a word that lifts us up, that let us come to know something more than what meets the eye. I can express this reaction with questions: What is this in front of me? Our impact with reality reveals that experientially life is need. Something in the universe, in real...
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The Religious Sense: March 2006
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Friday, March 31, 2006. Monsignor J. Francis Stafford, in writing the introduction, says that Guissani explains how every individual has a 'religious sense' which contains "the very essence of rationality" (xiii). Because of this, each one of us has the tools required to experience reality as it truly is. Modern mentality reduces reason to a series of categories into which reality is forced to enter" (xii). Posted by Marc at 10:30 PM. At the Origin of the Christian Claim. The Adventures Of Marc Paveglio.
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The Religious Sense: August 2006
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Tuesday, August 01, 2006. Chapter 15: The Hypothesis of Revelation: Conditions for its Acceptability. Centuries before Christ there is written record of a longing for redemption. Plato's Phaedo. Tells of man's begging for a safe route to knowing the truth of reality and of ourselves. Every person will cry out for liberation from the shackles of oppression and ignorance if he is open to the whole of human experience. What emerges is the hypothesis of revelation. Aspired to this kind of revelation" (143).
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The Religious Sense: May 2006
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006. Chapter 7: Unreasonable Positions Before the Ultimate Question: Reduction of the Question. The last chapter discussed three positions that denied the pressing ultimate question. The next three positions acknowledge the question, but stop short of fully engaging it. The Aesthetic or Sentimental Evasion. Is is not grand? Is it not curious? Everything makes sense here. Although emotion is an integral part of our nature, it are not by itself the finality that we seek. Giussani quotes C...
