----- Original Message -----
Sent: March 19, 2006 20:15
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] torrance and
logic
David , in other posts of the day, I find you saying that yoou and
Torrance are in agreement concerninglogic. I may ahve
misunderstood your wording, but that was what you said according to my
perspective.
Below you say this:
If you define "rationalist" in the more esoteric sense of the idea that
reason is the source of truth, then I do not believe the Holy Spirit is a
rationalist. By this definition, I am not a rationalist
either. However, I
do believe that the Holy Spirit is
rational. He also does not lie or employ
deception to mislead
others. The Holy Spirit uses rational thought to speak
to us, and he
expects us to include rationality as a basis of belief and
action.
---------- DM
Torrance might give caution with these words:
".............. we should seek to understand Christ, not by way of
observational deductions from his appearances, but in the light of what he is
in himself in his internal relations with God, that is, in terms of his
intrinsic significance disclosed through his self-witness and
self-communication to us in word and deed and reflected through the
evangelical tradition of the Gospel in the medium which he created for this
purpose in the apostolic foundation of the Church ...... When we
adopt this kind of approach, whether in natural science or in theology, we
find that progress in understanding is necessarily circular. We develop
a form of inquiry in which we allow some field of reality to disclose itself
to us in the complex of its internal relations or its latent structure, and
thus seek to understand it in the light of its own intrinsic intelligibility
or logos ..............Thus we seek to understand something, not by
schematising it to an external or alien framework of thought, but by operating
wit h a framework of thought appropriate to it" -------The Mediation of
Christ pp 4,5
