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Fides et Ratio (English: Faith and Reason) is an Theologian emeritus of the Pontifical Household and now Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Domenico e Sisto the University Church of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum[1] was influential in drafting the encyclical.[2] The encyclical primarily treats the relationship between faith and reason.
The encyclical posits that faith and reason are not only compatible, but essential together. Faith without reason, he argues, leads to superstition. Reason without faith, he argues, leads to nihilism and relativism. He writes:
Although reason creates a "systematic body of knowledge," the Pope avers, its completeness is illusory:
Without a grounding in spiritual truth, he continues, reason has:
On the wrong turns in modern philosophy and the duty of the magisterium:
In sum, the Pope "makes this strong and insistent appeal" that "faith and philosophy recover the profound unity which allows them to stand in harmony with their nature without compromising their mutual autonomy. The parrhesia of faith must be matched by the boldness of reason.
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