by Lorenzo Fazzini
February 3, 2010 - Future
You can asceticism for non-believers? The tragedies of the world still questioning the theology? A Catholic philosopher and a thinker of the Church compared to the (non) belief. James Canobbio and Duccio Demetrio
Canobbio: "Asked by the question of salvation"
"We get to ask the basic questions. When disposing of questions in there, you can raise a larger question. " Canobbio James, professor of the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy, Milan, seeking a breakthrough in the relationship between those who profess religious and who remains in unbelief. The Pope calls a "dialogue" with "those for whom religion is a foreign thing."
From a theological point of view, what is the most fertile field for comparison with non-believers?
"Today too the ethics prevails. Dare I say "unfortunately" because you can not go to the right ethical choices. In this dialogue should come up with fundamental questions: why we are the world? We humans are a kind of fluorescence and the expression of a greater reality that corresponds to our order? If we are in the world for a purpose, then the question arises: how to couple together a convergence on a view that goes beyond us? Questions are uncommon in comparison, which focuses more on bioethics and ecology. "
see concrete spaces for this dialogue?
"I see no meaningful experiences. I think of the past Chair of the non-believers established by Cardinal Martini in Milan, where we discuss issues more fundamental than those discussed today in the agora. We must get to ask the basic questions. If we start from the questions that the other partners, we remain firm in their foreclosures. In publishing, there are signs of the return of the God-question. I present the volume of the sociologist Rodney Stark, One True. The historical consequences of monotheism (Lindau): from Anglo-Saxon and German basic questions come about God meeting of the CEI in the middle of December he wanted to put this question: we must continue on this. "
God "an unknown" for Pope Benedict XVI this is the theological character of who God is still looking for what your traits are stressed today?
"The biblical figure of the Savior God. We live in an age which emphasizes the disenchantment of ideology, political projects, medical and technical. The people - they're experiencing in this economic crisis and the recent earthquake in Haiti - are asking the question: can there be a salvation for us? The Bible and Christianity have kept this message, announcing a Savior God. The men are wondering if there is some salvation on the horizon. "
Answering that request is urgent on account of deficient or proposal for the scope of a question Church?
"I would say that it is the urgent question of salvation which comes to us. The new age is proof that people want an experience of salvation. And it assumes that there is the possibility of a Savior. As Catholics, we move on ethics too: yes, the problems are urgent, but the risk is that it does not also cover the ad. We must revive the Savior God as a response to salvation anthropologically founded. "
The naturalistic position is affirmed in the debate about neuroscience. What is the primary contribution that Christian theology can offer on this issue?
"The theology is not afraid of the naturalistic perspective. In the history of thought has begun to speak of the soul by reading the man's desire to rise above the finite. The theologian must accept that what happens in the brain, so far as "spiritual" is a natural process. But this should cause the natural partner: how to justify my desire to ergermi above the biological fact? As believers, we should ask questions and do not accuse those who think like us. "
Demetrio: "Transcendence also relates to the secular world"
Transcendence and last things, the reason "enlarged" and the practice of charity. Duccio Demetrio A professor of philosophy at the University of Milan Bicocca, there are themes and subjects as possible for a fruitful exchange between secularists and Catholics today. "Leaning over the ridges of reason" is the invitation of his book "Asceticism metropolitan" (Ponte delle Grazie).
seems to echo the 'broaden reason "of Benedict XVI. A task common to Christians and non-believers?
"I think a meeting ground is the metaphysical dimension, namely the question of transcendence. Not only religious terms but as an addition to the human need to reach the deepest sense of humanity does not self-centered. Karl Jaspers said that metaphysics is "watching over". Otherwise there is the science and its method, which can not handle the issues of being. With this secular uneasy conscience, the points of contact are many. "
An example?
"We are called to challenge the hope to improve the finite: there is here a rich tradition of confrontation between believers and nonbelievers who may occupy the land. I am a believer not very Christian to me is central to the dignity of all life and face. "
You say 'the doubting thought. " The Pope asks to accommodate those who see God as "Unknown." His approach precludes any port of faith?
"For my part there is a great willingness otherwise contradict myself. The relationship with the Transcendent is a kind of perennial philosophy of thought doubting. And it is a continuous search of the reasons why it is impossible not to confront the religious question. This is a third way between the believer and the atheist century, a method by which calls believers to be approached, since it is little recognized. "
What the Christian should transmit more about God the atheist?
"The fundamental reason of the Christian message of salvation is the last time, that the last things that the atheist can not conceive, but which has attracted. From I feel that involved not only intelligence but also the emotions, just when I meet with the fundamental actions of the Christian tradition, such as charity. Believe should be a modest struggle against evil, something that is not unaffected by the non-believer. "
What is the task of the Church in this?
"There is a lowering of tension: the doubt the way, move on this path of" asceticism "is a problem for those who want to standardize everything. Should be made the leap to get to a thought that does not renounce the unease, which is the inner possibility of an encounter. "
During these interviews, you can see, by "Unlike believers," a distancing from the most hardened atheists.
"This radical atheist is attenuated. In the debates, the laity are struggling with these nineteenth-century atheists. Can I take the example of the House of Culture in Milan where, for seven years, I propose a course on "The doubts of the unbelievers," a weather-taboo topic. Enzo Bianchi Massimo Cacciari, or feel it was a shock for the visitors to this cultural institution, an expression of atheism of the nineteenth century. We look at the bookshelves: years ago it was unthinkable to think of religious sect. " What
emergencies for an alliance between those who profess no religion and religious people?
"For believers, it is not to emphasize the subjectivity of the person (a Christian term) who is the bearer of rights. Precisely because of this attention to the real person is very close to Don Virginio Colmegna of the House of Charity of Milan. It is important to jointly develop the religious theme, which can come from diametrically opposed positions. "
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