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Co-Workers of the Truth 7/29
Posted By reynor | Filed Under Co-Workers of the Truth, Pope Benedict XVI
What are the qualifications of the Christian philosopher? the Christian scholar? James mentions several, of which I propose to discuss only the first two. he says that true wisdom - the wisdom that comes from above - is first of all “pure” (James 3:17), which can also be translated “chaste”, “immaculate”, “undefiled”. It is, consequently, also peacable and peacemaking… It need hardly be pointed out how aptly that relates to us today. It is natural and necessary for theologians to discuss. But when theological discussion ceases to be a striving for truth and becomes, instead, a struggle for power in the Church, then the nature of theology has been radically falsified; it introduces party politics into the Church and becomes the medium of party power; it divides the Church. Whenever theology generates theological parties and these parties become Church parties, it has become a false wisdom. It creates enmities and embitters people. I must admit that what schocks me most depply in many letters and publications is the rank hatred of the Church and her members that speaks through them. The role of true wisdom and hence of the authentic teacher of theology in the Church is to create peace, not strife, to create goodness and inner openness, not embitterment.
From: Chirstlicher Glaube und Europa, pp.104-5
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