Contemplation: If It Makes for Peace, Why Not for Christian Witness Too?

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Tarasiewicz, Pawel
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2017-03-30
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International Étienne Gilson Society
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The author attempts to answer the following question: Why does Christian witness need contemplation? He claims that Christian witness needs contemplation, because contemplation reveals the truth about the nature of reality; it is this truth which is one of the factors that constitute the foundation of Christian faith. In a sense, contemplation is analogical to mysticism: as mystical visions make Christian belief grounded on the immediate experience of (meeting with) the Truth, so the contemplation of the creatures makes Christian belief based on the indirect experience of the Truth (i.e., the meeting with the traces left by the Creator in the world).
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contemplation    Christianity    witness    testimony    Ketman    mysticism    philosophy
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Tarasiewicz, Pawel. Contemplation: If It Makes for Peace, Why Not for Christian Witness Too?. Studia Gilsoniana 6:1 (January–March 2017): 85–96.
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https://depot.ceon.pl/handle/123456789/12771
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