What should we make of Cardinal John Henry Newman’s alleged elevation to the status of Doctor of the Church – as well as his canonisation, and other aspects of his legacy?
Very informative interview for a person such as myself that has not read Newman, but who wishes to know what is the truth about him as a Catholic writer.
"To the Modernist, doctrine is the result of internal human experiences, and changes over time to match human experiences."
John Paul II as a philosopher was enamored with the Phenomenology of the Jewish philosopher Edmund Husserl & of the converted (?) Jew Max Scheler, based largely on human experience and at least questionably compatible with the philosophical realism of St Thomas. I'm sure that influenced JPII's Modernist beliefs. Someone may object that he exalted St Thomas in his encyclical Fides et Ratio, but he didn't even write it, except for maybe a few lines like the deceptively attractive discription, "Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth." Two wings on a bird or plane, however, are equal in what there are and what they do, faith and reason are not. The encyclical was written by a former professor of mine, Fr Georges Cottier, OP.
Very informative interview for a person such as myself that has not read Newman, but who wishes to know what is the truth about him as a Catholic writer.
Thank you.
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"To the Modernist, doctrine is the result of internal human experiences, and changes over time to match human experiences."
John Paul II as a philosopher was enamored with the Phenomenology of the Jewish philosopher Edmund Husserl & of the converted (?) Jew Max Scheler, based largely on human experience and at least questionably compatible with the philosophical realism of St Thomas. I'm sure that influenced JPII's Modernist beliefs. Someone may object that he exalted St Thomas in his encyclical Fides et Ratio, but he didn't even write it, except for maybe a few lines like the deceptively attractive discription, "Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth." Two wings on a bird or plane, however, are equal in what there are and what they do, faith and reason are not. The encyclical was written by a former professor of mine, Fr Georges Cottier, OP.