The Pope's recent speech the Muslims feel so agitated about is really very good. It is about the old historical connection Christianity in its essence has to reason due to strong Hellenistic influences from the times of the inception of Christianity. He also mentions that this adherence to reason has not always been a lived reality in Christianity especially during the Middle Ages. He states that Europe has got moulded to what it is nowadays under a strong influence of a Christian religion that sees God revealing himself as logos. "In the beginning was the logos, and the logos is God", declares Evangelist John. In Islam the understanding the idea of likeness between our reason and that of God's is missing. There God's transcendence and otherness are so exalted that our reason, our sense of true and good are not an authentic mirror of God.
The link: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2006/september/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20060912_university-regensburg_en.html Irmeli To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
