Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: dragon!cms@gatech.edu Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: re: questions I can't answer Message-ID: Date: 9 Feb 90 07:15:56 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Computer Projects Unlimited Lines: 36 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu [underdog@portia.stanford.edu (Dwight Joe) asked for advice for people facing failure. However he specified advice based on the philosophy in Christianity, without involving God. avo@icad.com (Alex Orlovsky) responded that this is impossible > Christianity is the end of religion, and of philosophy: it is > ontology, a way of being. It is the way of communion with God. --clh] I came across the following relevant remark in the 1990 Catholic Almanac, in the section under Black Catholics, specifically the Social Apostolate: "For us the causes of justice and social concern are an essential part of evangelization. Our own history has taught us that preaching to the poor and to those who suffer injustice without concern for their plight and the systemic cause of their plight is to trivialize the Gospel and mock the cross. To preach to the powerful without denouncing oppression is to promise Easter without Calvary, forgiveness without conversion and healing without cleansing the wound." [Many lucid remarks about Christ being inextricably intertwined with Christian philosophy deleted.] > You might as well ask physicists, "What can you say about > color? but don't bring up electromagnetic radiation!" > It is really not a question at all, is it? A philosophy without God has no base on which to steady itself. Philosphies without God tend to balance on the philospher, sometimes with wobbly results. While many early Christian theologians drew upon various philosophies to enhance the Christian message, the fundamental message rests solely on God. > -- Alex Orlovsky > My own opinions, of course. Sincerely, gatech!ncsatl!smith_c