SEPARATION OF RELIGION FROM PHILOSOPHY : RELATIONSHIP OF FAITH AND REASON IN CHRISTIAN LIFE..

2. PAPER PRESENTED BY: Br. SARATH
CHAMAKALAYIL
sarathcthomas@gmail.com

3. “There is a two fold order
of knowledge, and with
regard to the source, we
know in one by natural
reason, the other by divine
faith.”
Vatican council-I

4. Religion
=
To Bind Together

5. GREEK PERIOD
Religion
=
The source of
science and
philosophy

6. “The distinctiveness of early
Greek thinkers is that in their
speculation elements of
philosophy, science and religion
mingle in a rich and heady brew. ”
Anthony Kenny

7. “The notion of supreme
being is found in the forms
of the good”.
Plato
“The unmoved mover”.
Aristotle

8. In short: Greek philosophy originated
and developed in the religious context.

10. “Faith is not
opposed to reason
but is higher than
reason”.
St. Thomas Aquinas

11. “Christian teachers
ought to use pagan
thinking
when interpreting
scripture”.
St.
Augustine.

12. Modern Period
An epoch of the
revolutionary thoughts

14. Philosophy
Vs
Religion

15. “No plausible place remained at which to locate
the Christian heaven and its inhabitants”.

16. “The religion of the future
will be a cosmic religion.
It should transcend
personal God and avoid
dogma and theology”.
Albert Einstein

17. “Our existence is an accident”.
Charles Darwin

18. “Religion is
dangerous. It
constitutes
a threat to the
advance of the
modernity and
the natural
sciences.”
Freud

19. “Religion is the
sigh of the
oppressed
creature.
The heart of the
heartless world, it
is the spirit of
a spiritless
situation and it is
the opium of the
people.”
Karl Marx

20. “We invent God
in order to
explain the
unexplainable”.
Sartre

21. “Religion is the projection of the human needs,
and the expression of the uttered sorrow of the
soul”.
Feuerbach

22. “We must be the murders of God”.
Nietzsche

23. we maintain a world view that the
world is an unfinished existence or it
is something in the process of
development
The masters of modernity believed in
human reason’s power to combat
ignorance, superstition and tyranny to
build a better world.

24. “The most significant
predicament of the
modernity is the
disappearance of
transcendence.”
Dupre

25. SECULARISATION OF RELIGION
“ Secularization” designates a long term process by
which a disappearance of religious ties and
attitudes to transcendence, expectation of an after
life, ritual performances and firmly established
turns of speech is driven onward in both private and
daily public life.”
Blumenberg

26. Radicalization of the reason
• Religion should be devoid of its mythic
background and context.
• Everything should be subjected to
reason.

27. RELIGION IS MORE
AMBITIOUS THAN
PHILOSOPHY
Religion
is not a departmental
affair.
It is not an emotional feeling.
 It is an expression of the whole
man.

28. THE RESULT OF SEPARATION
POSITIVE RESULTS
 It promoted the
democratic values,
freedom of expression,
equality, human dignity,
feminism etc.
 It could help the church to
become a pure spiritual
entity.
 It paved the way for the
tremendous growth in the
scientific field.
NEGATIVE RESULTS
 Liberal thought of modernity
challenged the moral values of
the people.
 Man lost the feeling of affection,
care, sympathy, love, etc.
 Modernity gave way to the
atheistic thoughts and it resulted
in evils such as materialistic,
hedonistic and atheistic
approach to life and reality.

29. It is needed to recognize each other
Religion and Philosophy are
needed to recognize each other

30. • Philosophy must recognize the central
position of religion
• We are in need of a healthy coexistence of philosophy and religion
• Philosophy provides a rational foundation
for religion and on the other hand philosophy
gets meaning through religion

31. • Whenever philosophy set out to
separate itself from a religious context,
It’s scope, vision of its range, its
potency, etc. become drastically
limited.
• Philosophy itself will be separated from
the context in which it originated, which
will be a self limitation of philosophy
and it is very unfortunate.

32. “Faith
illumined by
reason”, it is
meeting of
creature and
creator.
In the far
reaches of the
human heart
there is a
desire and
nostalgia for
God.
Fides et Ratio