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POPE-REASON Jan-29-2007 (310 words) xxxi
Pope again decries rupture between faith and reason
By John Thavis
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Returning to one of his favorite themes, Pope Benedict XVI said the rupture between faith and reason has produced a type of "schizophrenia" in modern culture.
The pope made the remarks at a noon blessing Jan. 28, the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, the philosopher and theologian known for articulating a harmonious vision of faith and reason more than 700 years ago.
Today, the pope said, the faith-reason relationship looms as a serious challenge for the dominant Western culture.
While the achievements of the modern sciences are undeniable, he said, this progress has been accompanied by a tendency to consider as true only that which can be experimentally proven.
This represents a limit on human reason and "produces a terrible schizophrenia, now clearly recognized, in which rationalism and materialism live together, as do hyper-technology and unbridled instinct," he said.
The pope said humanity urgently needs to rediscover the Christian vision of a rationality that is open to the divine, and in particular to the "perfect revelation" that is Jesus Christ.
"When Christian faith is authentic it does not mortify human freedom and reason; therefore, why should faith and reason be afraid of each other, if they can express themselves better by meeting and engaging in dialogue?" he said.
The pope noted that this was an important theme of his speech last September in Regensburg, Germany. That talk, however, drew the most attention because of statements about Islam and that religion's relationship with reason.
The pope did not mention Islam in his brief talk to pilgrims, but he underlined a point he made at Regensburg: that the Christian synthesis between faith and reason should be a precious resource for Western civilization as it seeks to dialogue with other cultures and religions of the world.
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