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Fides quae creditur, czyli relacja wiary i rozumu
Fides quae creditur, the relationship of faith and reason

Author(s): Janusz Bujak
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: Pope Benedict XVI; fi des qua; fi des quae; Lumen fi dei; Pope Francis; the Second Vatican Council; faith

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to show the reality of the faith and its relation to reason in the modern teaching of the Church. To achieve this goal, in the first paragraph we have the distinction between fides qua and fides quae in the second Vatican Council’s teaching on faith, the third section shows the relationship between faith and reason in John Paul II’s encyclical Fides et Ratio, the fourth paragraph speaks of faith in the encyclical of Pope Francis Lumen fidei, and the fifth with the main task of theology, which is the search for the truth about the man in the light of revelation in the thought of Benedict XVI.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 7-22
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish