Tuesday, November 08, 2005

An Aspect of Christian Pluralism

What I have in mind here are only the limited and often mutually exclusive horizons of the particular disciplines (for example, mathematical logic, linguistic analysis, psychology, sociology, physics), each of which tends to make totalitarian claims to explain existence.

It is important for Christians to engage in these sciences not simply because of their countless, positive, theoretical and practical results, but also in order to uncover their intrinsic limitations and incompetence when it comes to asking fundamental questions of Weltanschauung, on which the meaning or meaningless of existence ultimately depends, and to which only God's revelation in Christ can vouchsafe an answer.

Balthasar, Truth is Symphonic, pp 56-57

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