"[Supernatural] Faith is anchored in what Jesus and the saints see.Jesus, he who knows God directly, sees him. This is why he is the true mediator between God and man. His human act of seeing the divine reality is the source of light for all men. Nevertheless, we must not regard Jesus himself as one totally isolated, pushing him back into a remote historical past. We have already spoken of Abraham; let us now add that the light of Jesus is reflected in the saints and shine out through them. But the 'saints' are not only those persons who have been explicitly canonized. There are always hidden saints, too, who receive in their communion with Jesus a ray of his splendor, a concrete and real experience of God."
I've quoted this passage and the previous one because they help shed light on this question of the relation between natural faith and supernatural faith...
[Update: the above quote is from J. Ratzinger, Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures, p 107-108]
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Well, the tech-talk seemed like Küng, but seeing this part "Jesus, he who knows God directly, sees him. This is why he is the true mediator between God and man" I know is definetely not Küng! : )
Now it sounds like something Avery Dulles, Romano Guardini, Herbert McCabe Or Joseph Ratzinger would say. Even when the topic is one of their favorites I'd never pick JPII or von Balthasar, the language is so simple, they tended to wrap simple things in a philosophical mumbo-jumbo hard to follow, IMHO.
The part that says "But the 'saints' are not only those persons who have been explicitly canonized" is a recurrent idea in Ratzinger, but the whole passage makes me think of McCabe...yep I vote for McCabe.
Rahner?
You are Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, and I claim my five pounds!
Ratzinger...im guessing the Yes of Jesus Christ...
Yes, it's Ratzinger from his book, Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures. Top honors go to Paul for the certitude expressed in his answer. An honorable mention goes to Gabaon whose inferential reasoning brought him very close to the answer and who extended the educational value for me by showing his work. I really must read some McCabe...
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