Hey, there's an idea!  I'll be he'd look pretty good in a black hooded
alb, huh?

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From: St. Mary's Church, Delray Beach [mailto:stmary@...] 
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 11:35 AM
To: faithandlife@...
Subject: Re: [FaithandLife] SALT SHAKER -Ratzinger the Augustinian

Mike+

Why don't you send a note off and ask Benedict to join the SSA!!!!!!!!!!

E+
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From: "Michael L Ward" <mward@...>
To: <faithandlife@...>
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 10:44 AM
Subject: RE: [FaithandLife] SALT SHAKER -Ratzinger the Augustinian


> Oh boy, you've done it now.....
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> MLW+
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> From: charles scott [mailto:crscottblu@...]
> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 10:42 AM
> To: faith life
> Subject: [FaithandLife] SALT SHAKER -Ratzinger the Augustinian
>
> SNIPPETS FROM "SALT OF THE EARTH" by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger  (1997)
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> PETER SEEWALD "Tertullian gave us the paradox 'I believe because it is
> absurd.'  Augustine believed 'in order to understand.'  Why does
> Cardinal Ratzinger believe?"
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> RATZINGER "I am a decided Augustinian.  Just as creation comes from
> reason and is reasonable, faith is, so to speak, the fulfillment of
> creation and thus the door to understanding.  I am convinced of that.
> Faith therefore is access to understanding and knowing.  Turtuallian's
> remark -- he loves exaggerated formulations -- naturally reflects the
> sum of his thinking in general.  He wanted to say that God shows
himself
> precisely in a paradoxical relation to what prevails in the world.
And
> in doing this God shows his divinity.  But Tertullian was admittedly
> somewhat hostile to philosophy.  In that respect I don't share his
> position but that of Saint Augustine."
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> PETER SEEWALD "Have you also developed something like your own
> expression for the core of the faith?"
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> RATZINGER "I don't need any new motto here.  It seems to me that
> Augustine's statement, which Thomas, too, later adopted, really
> describes the right direction.  I believe!  And already the act of
faith
> itself implies that this comes from him who is reason itself.  And in
> first submitting myself in faith to him, whom I do not understand, I
> know that by this very act I am opening the door to understanding."
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