Spe Salvi, paragraph 23


	Spe Salvi, paragraph 23

Efrain Alvarado

12-5-2007 10:55 PM

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we can only touch upon the issues connected with them. Yes indeed, reason is 
God's great gift to man, and the victory of reason over unreason is also a goal of the Christian life. But 
when does reason truly triumph? When it is detached from God? When it has become 
blind to God? Is the reason behind action and capacity for action the whole of 
reason? If progress, in order to be progress, needs moral growth on the part of 
humanity, then the reason behind action and capacity for action is likewise 
urgently in need of integration through reason's openness to the saving forces 
of faith, to the differentiation between good and evil. Only thus does reason 
become truly human. It becomes human only if it is capable of directing the will 
along the right path, and it is capable of this only if it looks beyond itself. 
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