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"Grand phenomena do not strike us the less when we have discovered something of their wonderful mechanism" - is it a modern apology for the reunification of science and faith? Not really. The text written by St. Basil is 1,600 years old and is the golden line for the Catholic tradition from its beginnings to our days. The purpose of this book is to show the reader how to discover this in the history of Christian encounters with science. St. Paul began it, St. Augustine brought it to excellence, St. Thomas Aquinas made it visible to all. Yes, there was an outbreak of conflict in this area, culminating in the 19th century, but the future is not necessarily so dark. We have so many spiritual masters to learn from. We, the present dwarfs, can see further, sitting on the shoulders of giants... Yes, this brilliant saying also comes from the Catholic tradition.
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Rajmund Pietkiewicz is Professor of the Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Wrocław.
Riassunto
“Grand phenomena do not strike us the less when we have discovered something of their wonderful mechanism” – is it a modern apology for the reunification of science and faith? Not really. The text written by St. Basil is 1,600 years old and is the golden line for the Catholic tradition from its beginnings to our days. The purpose of this book is to show the reader how to discover this in the history of Christian encounters with science. St. Paul began it, St. Augustine brought it to excellence, St. Thomas Aquinas made it visible to all. Yes, there was an outbreak of conflict in this area, culminating in the 19th century, but the future is not necessarily so dark. We have so many spiritual masters to learn from. We, the present dwarfs, can see further, sitting on the shoulders of giants... Yes, this brilliant saying also comes from the Catholic tradition.
Prefazione
Blaise Pascal famously said: “God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob – not of philosophers and scholars”. It is a catchy phrase, but it does not summarize properly the real history of Christian thought. We have always needed both: both reason and faith, going hand in hand.
