Vie spirituelle et connaissance théologique
The question concerns the influence a deep spiritual life is able to exert on theological knowledge, first on the personal, and then on the ecclesial level. Without completely rejecting the idea of the extension of theological knowledge as a function of spiritual experience, the question of influenc...
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| Language: | French |
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Ed. Pontificia Univ. Gregoriana
1970
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Gregorianum
Year: 1970, Volume: 51, Issue: 2, Pages: 225-244 |
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| Summary: | The question concerns the influence a deep spiritual life is able to exert on theological knowledge, first on the personal, and then on the ecclesial level. Without completely rejecting the idea of the extension of theological knowledge as a function of spiritual experience, the question of influence belongs on another plane. Following the accepted teaching on the gifts of understanding and wisdom, and with regular recourse to spiritual experience, particularly that of Saint Mary Magdalene dei Pazzi, Saint Ignatius, Saint John of the Cross, the author shows that spiritual influence makes itself felt in a controlling and ordering rôle. As a control, spiritual life keeps theological knowledge, moral and dogmatic, consonant with the whole of Revelation, to which it imparts fresh reality. As an ordering idea, it impels the synthetic vision onward into the practical as well as the speculative domain. As a consequence one understands better how theological knowledge and spiritual life are mutually supporting. The first constantly reminds the second of the objective character of the message transmitted by the Church and gives it more precise expression; the second assures the first of continuing contact with the divine life that God grants the Church and every christian. |
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