Fede e ragione: un'enciclica interroga il postcristianesimo

Sa？etak The article assumes five thesis grafted into the longest Encyclical Letter written by St. John Paul II (1920-2005) exactly twenty years after its promulgation (1998-2018), ？Fides et ratio？ concerning the relationships between faith and reason. Some have being discovered during the past twenty years, others are unpublished. With the first one, man underlines the complete autonomy of philosophy with respect to Christian theology, as the science of the faith that thinks of itself, the reason why theological knowledge is not linked to any kind of philosophy, which means, it uses the philosophy ？qua talis？. With the second it is reiterated the consciousness that faith without the ？recta ratio？ – today muddened and weakened by the society of technology – could do nothing without the logos it has been equipped with since the beginning. Thus, with the third thesis we (de)monstrate that, in order to prevent the reproductive thought from continuing to infinity, they find in the embodied form of the logos - Jesus Christ – the only ？fulfillment？ of their own research. The fourth thesis reveals something that had escaped until a few months ago, namely the insistence of ？Fides et ratio？ to open up to other cultures, besides the rather secularized Christian one, like the Indian or Asian one, there being a ？ratio？. With the fifth thesis , equally unpublished, it is recognized that only an ？ethical reason？ or amicable, responsible, fiducial, in fact, can allow the faith to reach that level of revelation which it longs for: in the person of Jesus Christ