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Tradition of Judeo-Christian is characterized by the claim of having received revalation from God himseld. This might be referred to as a superatural revalation as opposed to a natural revalation. We call this Divine revalation. | Tradition of Judeo-Christian is characterized by the claim of having received revalation from God himseld. This might be referred to as a superatural revalation as opposed to a natural revalation. We call this Divine revalation. | ||
The church maintains that the human reason is inded capable by itself of attaining hte knowledge God: but that the revelatoin given to through Jesus Christ and the phrophets is nevertheless very useful. The First Vatican Council (1870) declared: | |||
<blockquote>God, the beginning and end of all things, can be known with certitude from created things by the natural light of human reason... But God, in His infinite wisdom and goodness, has seen fit to reveal himself anf the eternal decrees of his will to the human race in another way - one that is supernatural... </blockquote> | |||
it does not say that the existance of God can be demonstrated. | |||
Revelation enables us to know them easily, whereas without it the knowledge of God is quite difficult. | |||
==== 4. Nature Speaks of God ==== | ==== 4. Nature Speaks of God ==== | ||
==== 5. God has spoken to us ==== | ==== 5. God has spoken to us ==== | ||
Revision as of 21:00, 2 January 2012
Title: 'The Catholic Vision
Author Edward D. O'connor, C.S.C
Content
Part 1: Perspectives
2. Christianity amid the world religious.
3. The modern Religious atmosphere
Part 2: The sources of religious knowledge
The sources from which religious knowledge can be sought... nature and revelation
Nature has often been preceived as a manifstation of God, and most of the classical arguments for the existence of God start from nature. We call this natural knowledge of God by reason.
Tradition of Judeo-Christian is characterized by the claim of having received revalation from God himseld. This might be referred to as a superatural revalation as opposed to a natural revalation. We call this Divine revalation.
The church maintains that the human reason is inded capable by itself of attaining hte knowledge God: but that the revelatoin given to through Jesus Christ and the phrophets is nevertheless very useful. The First Vatican Council (1870) declared:
God, the beginning and end of all things, can be known with certitude from created things by the natural light of human reason... But God, in His infinite wisdom and goodness, has seen fit to reveal himself anf the eternal decrees of his will to the human race in another way - one that is supernatural...
it does not say that the existance of God can be demonstrated.
Revelation enables us to know them easily, whereas without it the knowledge of God is quite difficult.