Friday, October 31, 2008

Don't know much about Theology?

That's too bad, son. Go get yourself some sweet divinity and to hell with physics and math and history and always sinful biology and anatomy (for who but a closet heathen would busy himself so much with the vanishing flesh?). Yeah, son, to hell with them, and go open those sacred books until your Bible is cracked in half. Benedict, you're awesome...

Divine wisdom, on the other hand, is "following the mind of Christ, the one who opens the eyes of the heart to follow the path of truth and love," the Pontiff added.

Thus when St. Paul makes this distinction between types of wisdom, Benedict XVI explained, what he denounces is "the poison of false wisdom, which is human pride. It is not, therefore, knowledge in itself that can cause harm, but rather presumption, the 'vainglory' from what one has come -- or imagines he has come -- to know."

The Apostle, the Pope continued, "doesn't want in any way to lead to an undervaluing of the human effort necessary for knowing, but rather places himself on another plane: Paul is interested in emphasizing -- and he does it without any half measures -- what it is that is truly worthwhile for salvation and that which, on the other hand, can bring division and ruin."

What St. Paul opposes, he affirmed, is "a type of intellectual pride, in which man, even knowing a lot, loses his sensitivity for the truth and his willingness to open himself to the novelty of divine action."

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