The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers and the Fathers of the church, knowing meant something different: it meant knowing in wonder. By knowing or perceiving one participates in the life of the other. Here knowing does not transform the counterpart into the property of the knower; the knower does not appropriate what he knows. On the contrary, he is transformed through sympathy, becoming a participant in what he perceives.
Jürgen MoltmannTags: knowledge church-fathers
An error in the doctrine of God will have inevitable consequences in the sphere of action, of moral behaviour, of the polity of the Church, and of basic culture and social organization. A change in the doctrine of the Trinity in either of these directions cannot help but have political consequences.
Farrell, commenting on Nazianzen's connection between Trinity and Holy Monarchy
Tags: monarchy church-fathers
Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?
Augustine of HippoTags: christianity atheism theology anthropocentrism church-fathers artifex converts
Pray without ceasing on behalf of other men...For cannot he that falls rise again?
Ignatius of AntiochTags: saints early-christianity church-fathers patristics
For truly barren is profane education, which is always in labor but never gives birth. For what fruit worthy of such pangs does philosophy show for being so long in labor? Do not all who are full of wind and never come to term miscarry before they come to the light of the knowledge of God, although they could as well become men if they were not altogether hidden in the womb of barren wisdom?
Gregory of NyssaTags: philosophy theology church-fathers
No one can have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.
CyprianTags: saints catholicism church-fathers early-church patristics roman-catholic-saint
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