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The Catholic Intellectual Tradition
J. O’Keefe, John Keegan, Bridget, Ph.D. Merys, Gina
J. O’Keefe, John
Keegan, Bridget, Ph.D.
Merys, Gina
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"Those of us who have spent our careers engaged in the study of the Catholic tradition are confident that there is, in fact, something that could appropriately be called the “Catholic Intellectual Tradition.” Fundamentally, we would say that this tradition includes, at a minimum, a conviction that faith and reason can and should be reconciled. Although the early Christian theologian Tertullian (d. ca. 220) may have quipped, “what has Athens to do with Jerusalem…or the Academy with the Church,” he was no enemy of the intellectual life and actively pursued ways to bring these seeming opposites into constructive dialogue. Likewise, Clement of Alexandria (d. ca 215) and Origen (d. 254) engaged Platonic philosophy and attempted to reconcile Christian scriptures with that intellectual world. The work of these pioneering Christian theologians set the paradigm for the subsequent unfolding of the entire project of Christian theology." (pg 2)
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