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Fr ZACHARIAS Memorial LECTURES 2013

Fr ZACHARIAS Memorial LECTURES 2013. FAITH AND PHILOSOPHY: REFERENCES TO THE MAJOR PHILOSOPHICAL TRENDS OF LUMEN FIDEI. He measures the autonomous reason against the light of faith. . PHILOSOPHICAL GIST OF THIS LETTER. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI wants to

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Fr ZACHARIAS Memorial LECTURES 2013

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  1. Fr ZACHARIAS Memorial LECTURES 2013

  2. FAITH AND PHILOSOPHY: REFERENCES TO THE MAJOR PHILOSOPHICAL TRENDS OF LUMEN FIDEI

  3. He measures the autonomous reason against the light of faith.

  4. PHILOSOPHICAL GIST OF THIS LETTER Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI wants to protect the Christian dogmas from the challenges of extreme relativism, subjectivism, pragmatism and the technological interpretations of truth.

  5. He seems to be an Augustinian and thus reaches up to the Platonic notion of the remembrance of truth.

  6. In 1969 Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI said : “The organ by which God can be seen cannot be a non historical ratio naturalis(natural reason) , which just does not exist, but only the ratio purai.epurificata (purified reason) or, as Augustine expresses it echoing the Gospel , the corpurum ( pure heart) .” TRACY ROWLAND, Four Hands, One Vision,(Tablet Magazine, 13 July 2013), 9-10.

  7. For him, Faith is not a private matter; but it is necessarily a social or ecclesial one. Criticism of the idea of reason as an independent and sovereign act of human is the central philosophical theme of this letter.

  8. Major Criticisms This letter is accused of Its idealization of church Eurocentric Philosophy Pessimistic approach towards postmodern tendencies of the society (Cf. Tablet Magazine,13 July 2013, 8-10)

  9. HOW SHOULD WE ASSESS THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRENDS IN THIS LETTER ? The objective validity and the credibility of the dogmas cannot be questioned. But the interpretative approaches can be evaluated.

  10. Readers may confront a natural communication problem between the synthetic and analytical ways of interpretation of the Hebrew and Greek thought.

  11. Pope John Paul II appealed to the Christians in Asia, especially India, to use their rich philosophical and religious heritage to interpret the Christian faith ( Fides et Ratio, No.72 )

  12. Such an openness is not found in Lumen Fidei But that approach is not ruled out by this encyclical letter.

  13. The contextualization of Lumen Fidei for Indian Christians Interpreting Christian faith in the light of the rich Indian Philosophical heritage.

  14. How can we, the Christians in India make an interpretation of Christian faith in terms of the philosophical and religious background of our country?

  15. Let’s think upon it…

  16. THANK YOU…

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