What does it mean to think well?
“Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth,” writes Pope St. John Paul II. In the Catholic tradition, human reason finds its highest purpose not only in accumulating knowledge or exercising mastery, but in coming to love wisdom: the true philo-sophia. In its search for understanding, the mind encounters mystery, pursues intellectual virtues, and ultimately desires the vision of God. In this series we study texts in philosophy and theology, both ancient and modern, to think about the gift of thinking, and to explore the harmony of reason and faith.
How Catholics Read the Bible: The Spiritual Depth of Scripture
The Roman liturgy, the Fathers of the Church, and the great medieval theologians all interpret Sacred Scripture in light of the early disciples' most primitive experience of the Risen Lord. In his overview of the literal and spiritual senses of the Bible, Fr Francisco Nahoe OFMConv probes ancient methods for understanding our encounter with the eternal Word. To find out if even 21st Century Catholics may benefit from these ways of reading both the Old and New Testaments, come to the Caruso Catholic Center at 6:00 PM on Wednesday 28 September 2022.
Fr. Francisco Nahoe
Fr Francisco Nahoe OFMConv holds a Ph.D. in Renaissance Literature from the University of Nevada, a Th.M. in Biblical Studies from Harvard Divinity School, and an MA in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College. He earned a bachelor’s degrees in philosophy at Pomona College in Claremont and in theology at the Pontifical Seraphicum in Rome. His present research and writing projects include work on Milton’s Italian verse, European petrarchismo, and global rhetorics of science. A Roman Catholic priest and Franciscan friar, he teaches rhetoric and philosophy at Zaytuna College, a Muslim institution in Berkeley CA.