Faith, Rationality and Islam: a Crisis

The world shared some turmoil; what went wrong? that was the question, deplored the argument; It’s all about Pope Benedict’s address given to his old university at Regensburg in Germany where he had taught – a number of years with total commitment, genuine dialogue and contribution. His theology speaks about history and faith its rationality and intellectual debate meant to participate without any regret; with relationship between faith and intellect. The darkness of a new episode or story to tell, barbarism that the Pope fears in this generation; perhaps abuse and neglect of fundemental values that’s growing decadence of moral continuation. It’s how he sees now the postmodern Europe, in different ways where there are revelations; a climate of relativism and shared influence secularism in the service of separation. What’s binding in his theological rejoinder church’s original faith expressions and traditions a cultural product of time shared with modern trust revisited and highlighted with modern ideas. Plato and Aristotle are indeed proponents of Greek philosophical tradition; their influence in the medieval Latin formation shared some dialogue along with revelation. What was exactly quoted in Pope Benedict’s address referring to Manuel II Palaeologus “show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.” There’s a vivid brusqueness in this statement, however, he explained between faith and reason; the Muslim world reacted with anger and conclusion, that Pope Benedict had denounced the Qu’ran in its existence. Not in his own personal view how he said it, without any polemics to pounce on its evil meaning Qu’ran as an unmediated word of God; the message of the Prophet it descended – on Muhammad; it came from God. Hostility continued to draw the line of division, A process of theological need and understanding With shared witness and value in today’s relativism, Pope Benedict had reason completely credible.