SACRAMENTAL LIVING
Philosophy
How do you respond to those who say that Christ the Miracle-worker cannot fit in our logic? Simply reply: You fit into His logic. In His logic, all eternity fits and all the nobleness of time and, then, if you wish, a place will be found even for you. If a barrel cannot fit into a thimble, you can fit a thimble into a barrel. Blessed Clement of Alexandria says; “Philosophers are children until they become men though Christ. For truth is never thinking only.” Christ came to correct man and, therefore, men's logic. He is our Logos and our Logic. That is why we must direct our reason toward Him and not Him toward our reason. He is the corrector of our reason. The sun is not regulated according to our clock, but our clock is regulated according to the sun.
St. Nikolai Velimirovic
Prologue from Ohrid
It is an illusion of the European Enlightenment that there exists some presuppositionless, indubitable knowledge, which can be arrived at without reference to tradition or external authority, by the free exercise of adult human rationality, critical or otherwise. It seems that only a full realization of what this means can lead European civilization to firmer ground and create foundations for a new civilization. As it is, the ground [of Western European civilization] is both shaky and crumbling.
Paulos Mar Gregorios ,“Gregory of India” 1922-†1996
A Light Too Bright: The Enlightenment Today
The “Light” of Fools
The Book of Proverbs is attributed to Solomon, who is said to be the wisest man who ever lived. Chapter 23 of Proverbs, verse 7, reads “As a man thinketh so he is.” This saying sums up the power that human ideas are known to have in shaping human life. Since human “ideas rule the world”, the world of ideas has dire consequences for all that is in the world.
Philosophy means “love of wisdom” from Greek, philo (love) and sophia (wisdom). Yet the history of modern Western European philosophy shows little love of wisdom, and displays more foolishness, or hubris as Greeks ancient (and some modern) would say, making old fashioned common sense look profoundly wise by comparison. . .
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