The Renewed Christocentric Synthesis in Joseph Ratzinger’s Logos-centric Symphony

• Authors: Roland Millare

Title variants

PL

Odnowiona synteza chrystocentryzmu w Logos-centrycznej symfonii Josepha Ratzingera

Abstracts

PL

W niniejszym artykule przedstawiona zostanie kwestia relacji między wiarą a rozumem w ujęciu Josepha Ratzingera. Nowoczesność wprowadza rozdział między wiarą a rozumem, co skutkuje ograniczeniem rozumu i podporządkowaniem logosu etosowi. Ten brak jedności między wiarą i rozumem oraz prymat etosu nad logosem wpływa następnie na naturę i misję teologii. Wbrew temu postulowanemu brakowi integrującej harmonii między wiarą a rozumem, Joseph Ratzinger dowodzi jedności wiary i rozumu jako całości zbudowanej na prymacie logosu i podejściu chrystocentrycznym. Autor artykułu zamierza udowodnić, że chociaż Ratzinger określa swoją teologię jako „fragmentaryczną” i „niekompletną”, to zostawił Kościołowi nowatorską „symfonię” teologiczną opartą na połączeniu daru wiary z rozumem. Wykazane zostanie, w jaki sposób – według Ratzingera – wiara może umożliwić rozumowi przezwyciężenie ograniczeń narzuconych przez współczesnych myślicieli, takich jak Immanuel Kant. W ostatniej części artykułu pokazane będzie, że ukoronowaniem teologii Josepha Ratzingera/Benedykta XVI jest uznanie prymatu miłości uosabianej przez świętych, którzy świadczą o przemieniającej mocy poznania i miłości do Jezusa, Wcielonego Logosu.

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This article aims to present Joseph Razinger’s Christocentric approach to the question of the relation between faith and reason. Modernity introduces the separation between faith and reason, which results in the limitation of reason and the subordination of logos to ethos. This disunity, however, between faith and reason and the primacy of the ethos over logos affects the nature and mission of theology. In contrast to the loss of the integrative harmony between faith and reason, Joseph Ratzinger argues for the distinction and unity between faith and reason built upon the primacy of logos and a Christocentric approach. The author also intends to prove that although Ratzinger describes his theology as “fragmentary” and “incomplete,” he has gifted the Church with a renewed theological symphony that flourishes only in conjunction with the gift of faith working in concert with reason. In Ratzinger’s view only faith can enable reason to overcome the self-imposed limitation developed by modern thinkers such as Immanuel Kant. Finally, the article will demonstrate that the crowning achievement of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI’s theology is the recognition of the primacy of love as embodied by the saints who are witnesses of the transformative power of knowing and loving Jesus, the Incarnate Logos.

Keywords

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Benedykt XVI; Joseph Ratzinger; wiara i rozum; logos vs etos; nowoczesność; chrystologia duchowa; misja teologii; podejście chrystocentryczne; prymat miłości; Logos Wcielony

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Benedict XVI; Joseph Ratzinger; faith and reason; logos vs ethos; modernity; spiritual Christology; mission of theology; Christocentric approach; primacy of love; Incarnate Logos

• Publisher: Papieski Wydział Teologiczny we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Wrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 243-262

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Roland Millare

• St. John Paul II Foundation, Houston, USA

• https://orcid.org/0009000620544509

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Identifiers

DOI

10.34839/wpt.2023.31.2.243-262

Biblioteka Nauki

31343723