Introduction: Commemorating Fides et ratio
“Can we not indeed say that ‘we can truly know’ God because Mary has contingently brought him forth through her own body, within the order of creation, in a way that is epistemically vastly superior to (though perfectly compatible and ultimately identical with) the god of the philosophers as enabled by the old metaphysics?”
“[T]he ultimate outcome of the project of mastering nature is not simply to humanize the world but more deeply to remove any reference to transcendence from the horizon of history.”