Published: 2018-01-07

ides et Ratio – two ways to knowing the truth

Piotr Ochotny
Warszawskie Studia Pastoralne
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/wsp.2016.11.3.32.06

Abstract

In 1998 Pope John Paul II released an encyclical letter on faith and reason, entitled Fides et Ratio. The Pope chose to call his encyclical “Faith and reason” because the two, in fact, work together. There is a profound unity and harmony between the two, “like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth”. Faith and reason are distinct but they are not contradictory. Both are about attaining truth. Reason proceeds by the light of principles which are known naturally. Faith adheres to truths believed on the authority of God. An understanding of the complementarity of faith and reason will help to avoid the extremes of rationalism on the one hand and fideism on the other.

Keywords:

truth, reason, faith, knowledge

Citation rules

Ochotny, P. (2018). ides et Ratio – two ways to knowing the truth. Warszawskie Studia Pastoralne, 3(32), 101–119. https://doi.org/10.21697/wsp.2016.11.3.32.06

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