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Pope Benedict XVI, The Papal Science
Page 19
Yet the question why this has to be so [why our definitions are correct] is a real question, and one which has to be remanded by the natural sciences to other modes and planes of thought - to philosophy and theology [i.e, to the Court of the Supreme Reasoning, ultimate Judge of Right and Wrong, Real and Unreal]. For philosophy and, albeit in a different way, for theology, listening to the great experiences and insights of the religious traditions of humanity, and those of the Christian faith in particular, is a source of knowledge, and to ignore it would be an unacceptable restriction of our listening and responding [a restriction that will render us unable to arrive to the Revelation of the Absolute Science]. Here I [stop to dismiss the 'Platonic element' altogether, because suddenly I] am reminded of something Socrates said to Phaedo. In their earlier conversations, many false philosophical opinions had been raised, and so Socrates says: "It would be easily understandable if someone became so annoyed at all these false notions that for the rest of his life he despised and mocked all talk about being - but in this way he would be deprived of the truth of existence and would suffer a great loss". The West has long been endangered by this aversion [not to the presuppositions of any real quest for God, but only] to the questions which underlie its rationality, and can only suffer great harm thereby. The [scientifically necessary and self-evident] courage to engage the whole breadth of reason, and not the denial of its grandeur [in the Worship of the All-inclusive Metaphysical Science] - this is the programme with which a theology grounded in Biblical faith enters into the debates of our time. [We should become once again Metaphysical; it doesn't matter that Metaphysics failed, this was just a coincidence!; we have nothing else to do, but to worship Reason in the University as the temple of Reason, whereby we will construct the Global Agreement of the Humanity of the Future. You don't have to listen to the Holy Inquisitor, and certainly you don't need to listen to any Saint, it suffices to pay attention to a fragment of the writings of the byzantine emperor ensuring our Cult of Reason. This way we will be scientific and hellenic and byzantine at the same time, and Christianity will be united again and ready to prepare the Global Union.] "Not to act reasonably, not to act with logos, is contrary to the nature of God", said Manuel II, according to his Christian understanding of God, in response to his Persian interlocutor [= according to our scientific 'hellenism', contrary to the Persian denial of omnipotent omniscience]. It is to this great logos, to this breadth of reason, that we invite our partners in the dialogue of cultures. To rediscover it constantly [= to produce, reproduce and then reproduce again the ultimate metaphysics, no matter if God remains a stranger and invisible, without the least hesitation, why can't we see the Phantom that orders for us His 'blessing' of axioms and principles, labouring to an evolving constant ideology where holy intimacy, joy and affection are absent, this is the powerful and reasonable faceless vision of papacy, and this] is the great task of the university.
Cf.
Manuel II Palaeologus Resources
* The Papal Chrislamism
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What have we done
to Christianity..
Orthodoxy and Science : A changing relationship?
* Papacy *
Constantinople
