Catholic philosophers/theologians on reason and faith in last 50 years?

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I have read the Catechism of the Catholic Church (complete, updated). Now I would like to move on to reading the writings of Catholic philosophers/theologians (in the last 50 years) who have written definitively or extensively about the relationship of reason and faith. (I expect to buy at least one book of each of the top ones.)

I have read some of the works of Augustine, Aquinas, Bonaventure, and others. I have also read John Paul II’s Fides et Ratio. I can handle “difficult material.”

Wikipedia has an entry for “List of Catholic Philosophers and Theologians.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Catholic_philosophers_and_theologians

The list is long and gives readers no way to know which ones emphasized writing about reason and faith.

Can you suggest three or four contemporaries respected by most Catholics, either clerics or laymen? They may be either academic or “public” intellectuals.

Thank you.
 
Fr Robert Barron S.T.D.,

Fr Mitch Pacwa SJ, PhD, S.T.B.

these two are well versed in theology and both make good videos and books.
 
Joseph Ratzinger aka Benedict XVI. Pretty much anything from him should be good.
I’ve heard good things about Fr. Bernard Lonergan’s Insight, although I’d bet that’d be too long for your purposes (and mine!)

Those two will keep you covered for a while.
 
BurgessLaughlin said:
I have read the Catechism of the Catholic Church (complete, updated). Now I would like to move on to reading the writings of Catholic philosophers/theologians (in the last 50 years) who have written definitively or extensively about the relationship of reason and faith. (I expect to buy at least one book of each of the top ones.).
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The Religious Sense by the late Fr Luigi Giussani (and good friend of Bl Pope John Paul II) is a profound, while readable, study of the relationship between faith and reason. It is also the first in a trilogy and so considers the faith and reason in the context of a relationship with Christ in the Church.

amazon.com/The-Religious-Sense-Luigi-Giussani/dp/0773516263
 
When you find any of them that can reconcile the dogma of a literal Adam and Eve as progenitors let me know.
 
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When you find any of them that can reconcile the dogma of a literal Adam and Eve as progenitors let me know.
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It’s nothing to get hung up about. 😃

That there were two first humans who committed the original sin is not an unreasonable hypothesis. Somebody had to commit the first sin. Why not Adam and Eve? 🤷
 
StrawberryJam said:
When you find any of them that can reconcile the dogma of a literal Adam and Eve as progenitors let me know.
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Reconcile it with what? the theory of evolution? The theory is full of slipshod reasoning and non-sequiturs.
 
BurgessLaughlin said:
I have read the Catechism of the Catholic Church (complete, updated). Now I would like to move on to reading the writings of Catholic philosophers/theologians (in the last 50 years) who have written definitively or extensively about the relationship of reason and faith. (I expect to buy at least one book of each of the top ones.)

I have read some of the works of Augustine, Aquinas, Bonaventure, and others. I have also read John Paul II’s Fides et Ratio. I can handle “difficult material.”

Wikipedia has an entry for “List of Catholic Philosophers and Theologians.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Catholic_philosophers_and_theologians

The list is long and gives readers no way to know which ones emphasized writing about reason and faith.

Can you suggest three or four contemporaries respected by most Catholics, either clerics or laymen? They may be either academic or “public” intellectuals.

Thank you.
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Here is a good list, there are four posts altogether. Just google " Scholastics-Bookshelf " for the others.

edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2009/07/scholastics-bookshelf-part-i.html

Linus2nd
 
I have another suggestion: maybe you would want to start with those mentioned in Fides et Ratio, which you are familiar with?

John Henry Newman, Antonio Rosmini, Jacques Maritain, Étienne Gilson and Edith Stein and, in an Eastern context, eminent scholars such as Vladimir S. Soloviev, Pavel A. Florensky, Petr Chaadaev and Vladimir N. Lossky.

Maybe you could throw Wojtyla in the mix, too. 🙂
 
BurgessLaughlin said:
I have read the Catechism of the Catholic Church (complete, updated). Now I would like to move on to reading the writings of Catholic philosophers/theologians (in the last 50 years) who have written definitively or extensively about the relationship of reason and faith. (I expect to buy at least one book of each of the top ones.)

I have read some of the works of Augustine, Aquinas, Bonaventure, and others. I have also read John Paul II’s Fides et Ratio. I can handle “difficult material.”

Wikipedia has an entry for “List of Catholic Philosophers and Theologians.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Catholic_philosophers_and_theologians

The list is long and gives readers no way to know which ones emphasized writing about reason and faith.

Can you suggest three or four contemporaries respected by most Catholics, either clerics or laymen? They may be either academic or “public” intellectuals.

Thank you.
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Ed Feser is a very good Thomist Philosopher and he runs a blog . If you want good information on philosophy of the mind, the cosmological argument,original sin, and the nature of final causes, according to Thomists, that is a very good start. Dietrich von Hildebrand is another great modern philosopher.
 
DanAl said:
Ed Feser is a very good Thomist Philosopher and he runs a blog . If you want good information on philosophy of the mind, the cosmological argument,original sin, and the nature of final causes, according to Thomists, that is a very good start. Dietrich von Hildebrand is another great modern philosopher.
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Garrigou-Lagrange’s Reality-A Synthesis of Thomistic Thought is another place I’ve found to have good information on Thomism.
 
StrawberryJam said:
When you find any of them that can reconcile the dogma of a literal Adam and Eve as progenitors let me know.
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Are you questioning the doctrine that we are decended from an original single pair? Or are you questioning the existence of Adam and Eve? Your statement is unclear.

Fr. John Trigilio, commentating on EWTN, said that the latest Directory of Catholic Saints lists both Adam and Eve as Saints of the Church. Therefore on the principle " The Church Believes as it Prays, " one must conclude that a first man, named Adam and a first woman, named Eve actually existed.

Linus2nd
 
Linusthe2nd said:
Are you questioning the doctrine that we are decended from an original single pair? Or are you questioning the existence of Adam and Eve? Your statement is unclear.

Fr. John Trigilio, commentating on EWTN, said that the latest Directory of Catholic Saints lists both Adam and Eve as Saints of the Church. Therefore on the principle " The Church Believes as it Prays, " one must conclude that a first man, named Adam and a first woman, named Eve actually existed.

Linus2nd
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This thread is about using reason and faith.
My question was very clear.
St. Christopher is, a Saint. Did he exist? Who knows. As long as it is spiritually edifying to someone, who cares?
That is not my question.
I am questioning the dogma of a literal pair of progenitors.
It is dogma, you must believe it.
 
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