Theology and Wisdom

The dialectical movment between faith and truth needs balance. Polarization, assimilation or annihilation of one or the other ends in fundamentalism. Both faith and truth will always exist and is part of the sphera of reason. The search for truth without faith becomes scientific fundamentalism, when knowledge turns into faith. The search for faith without knowledge becomes religious fundamentalisme, when faith turns into knowledge.

Scientific fundamentalisme is occupied with methodological atheism. In critizism we trust! Religious fundamentalisme is occupied with fatalistic moralism. In God we trust! Both position is an attempt to escape reality in a quest of freedom.

To be in reality and to be as free as human can be in life, we need a dialectical reasoning caring for both faith and truth.

On human nature

Human can not be in harmony with it’s own inner self, without knowing its nature. To know one’s nature is to acknowledge feelings, preferences, desires, needs, aversions, values, thoughts and other inner experiences that ignites one’s attention, reactions and behavior. People denying their nature will be out of balance and burn their soul down. Human can not escape their own nature.

Truth and Mystery

As long as there are truths, there are mysteries.
When the truth disappears, the mystery disappears.

The modern tunderstanding of mankind constructing probabilities and reservations through Scientific community, is the ultimate victor of the positivist ideal of science that seeks to remove all belief and metaphysics from our thinking.

If 2 + 2 = 4 is a social construction, there is no longer anything mysterious about this truth.

What remains is a demystified world of words made by man in a knowledge-producing society.
The irony is that this positivist ideal of science ends up as a post-factual society.
Without metaphysics, no truth, no struggle, just various forms of nihilism (expresses as economic progress).

The essence of teaching is enthusiasm and seriousness

As a teacher, you must care about the content, it must matter and form you. Then you can unfold new perspectives and not confirm what the listeners already know.

The essence of verbal education is to tell others what you believe in, and not what somebody else has told you to express verbally. You can’t tell anybody what to believe in, but you may prove your believe in what you are telling.