Comments for Inconclusive Postscript at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Tue, 21 May 2013 06:34:01 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/inconclusive-postscript.html#comment-3221 Wouldn't it be incorrect to say that Christianity is an "objective" truth? Christianity is a truth of faith, of belief, not of knowing. If we objectively knew the truths of the faith, it would no longer be faith. This is why St. Anselm said that he believes in order to know. He seeks to understand his faith through reason. So would it be true to say that Newman sought objective truth in faith? - AML Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:40:53 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/inconclusive-postscript.html#comment-3220 1) Kierkegaard’s pseudonym for the Postscript regards it as an affront to prove the existence of God in the same way that it would be an affront to prove the existence of anyone who is "present." This sounds like natural knowledge of God. 2) St. Thomas, I'd say, allows a similar connatural knowledge of God, however indistinct, inasmuch as God is our final end, like knowing from afar that “someone” is approaching but not knowing that it is “Peter” (ST I, q. 2, a. 1, ad. 1) - Eddie Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:33:04 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/inconclusive-postscript.html#comment-3218 Reading this piece, I was struck by the similarity to present day philosophies. If truth is a construct of the human mind then Christianity has to be looked at as just another religion that found its way into Western culture. One should not waste time as Newman did searching for objective truth. To a certain point I think we are all influenced by that infamous Reformation. What started out as reform of abuses became a state sponsored force for autonomy and the truth as one sees fit. Relativism? - Willie Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:39:05 +0100