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philosophia ancilla theologiae
philosophia ancilla theologiae
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@caitlyn_williams and my night was real good. (Taken with instagram)
Faith is a history, new every morning. It is no state or attribute. It should not be confused with mere capacity and willingness to believe. Of course, it may result in and involve all sorts of faithfully held convictions, which had better be called the sum of some sort of ‘insight.’ Faith might, indeed, include the insight, let us say, that the theologian would do well not to throw up his hands in disgust and hurriedly pass over to demythologizing procedures when he is confronted, for instance, by affirmations regarding Jesus’ birth from a virgin and his descent into hell, or by the resurrection of the flesh and the report of the empty tomb, or by the trinitarian dogma of Nicea and the Christological dogma of Chalcedon, and perhaps also by the incorporation of the Church into the profession of faith in the Holy Spirit. The theologian might, instead, do well to ask himself seriously whether he really believes—as he supposes he does—in the God of the Gospel when he thinks he can overlook, delete, or reinterpret these and similar points. It might be quite another God in whom he would then actually believe. All the same, willingness to believe all those and similar points is not yet faith. Faith is no credere quod, but rather a credere in, according to the unmistakable formulation of the Apostles’ Creed; it is not a belief ‘that …’ but a faith ‘in …’—in God himself, the God of the Gospel who is Father, Son, and Spirit. Whoever believes in him will hardly be able to avoid for any length of time the knowledge of many other points in addition to those we have cited. Yet faith is not a matter of being full of ‘belief’ in and on such special issues. Instead, what is important is believing in him, God himself, the subject of all predicates. That is what may happen anew every morning fide quaerente intellectum, by the faith that seeks knowledge.”
— Karl Barth, Evangelical Theology: An Introduction (translated by Grover Foley) (via invisibleforeigner)
This is beautiful.
(Source: invisibleforeigner)
