Contemplation: If It Makes for Peace, Why Not for Christian Witness Too?

• Authors: Paweł Tarasiewicz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The author attempts to answer the following question: Why does Christian witness need contemplation? He claims that Christian witness needs contemplation, because contemplation reveals the truth about the nature of reality; it is this truth which is one of the factors that constitute the foundation of Christian faith. In a sense, contemplation is analogical to mysticism: as mystical visions make Christian belief grounded on the immediate experience of (meeting with) the Truth, so the contemplation of the creatures makes Christian belief based on the indirect experience of the Truth (i.e., the meeting with the traces left by the Creator in the world).

Keywords

EN

contemplation; Christianity; witness; testimony; Ketman; mysticism; philosophy

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 85-96

Dates

published

2017-03-30

Contributors

author

Paweł Tarasiewicz

• Adler–Aquinas Institute, Manitou Springs, CO, USA

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Identifiers

ISSN

2300-0066