Christianity offers a complete imaginative vision of the world, making profound truth claims about reality. As Christians strive for truth and fulfillment, it becomes necessary to understand the interplay between faith and reason, as well as the proper ordering of sciences and the correct lens through which to view the Church as it operates in human history.
Christianity may help us to cope with difficulties and give us a sense of happiness, but at its core it is a matter of truth or falsity and it is to be believed on those grounds.
While scientism denies the existence of anything beyond the material world, the Christian sacramental vision affirms the existence and intermeshing of realities visible and invisible.
Many common historical claims leveled against the Church fall flat: they fail to recognize what the Church claims to be and what it claims to offer.
While 'studiositas' is a strength of mind, the mind infected by the often-misunderstood vice of 'curiositas' in one way or another blinded to the truth of real things.
Not only are authority and power not the same thing; they are almost complete opposites. Authority is the basis of human freedom. Coercive power tends to suffocate freedom.
While the relationship of faith and reason is a fraught question in the modern academy, Catholics have long offered a rich understanding of how faith and reason lead to genuine knowledge.
The grounds of credibility that we grant to witnesses of secular events should be granted to those of religious events.
To be clever and to be wise are two very different things: one can be clever concerning matters of the visible world yet lack wisdom, being blind to what touches the invisible world.