Pensées Catholiques - Edward L. Helmrich

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Résumé :
Perhaps the most fundamental barrier to faith is that every scheme of meaning is seen as a construction, i.e. that reality in itself is meaningless. One constructs a meaning and lives within it to make life more workable and bearable. This current view though is based on the assumption that reality in itself has no meaning. In contrast, the claim here is that reality is not meaningless in itself, and that Christianity and Catholicism in particular, and other schemes of meaning to the extent they agree with these two, are not constructions but are true in reality. Reality has meaning, and that meaning is revealed and accessible to us..

Sommaire:
Ed Helmrich graduated from Yale in 1983 with a B.A. in Mathematics and courses in Philosophy and English Literature. He finished one year of graduate Mathematics at Fordham University. During a few decades of limited action because of illness, working at Iona University library for the (Irish) Christian Brothers, he collected thoughts on faith and literature. Putting together these thoughts and assisted by those presented on EWTN, especially by Scott Hahn, the result was a set of essays and a set of collections of thoughts on different subjects. He lives in Larchmont, N.Y. and is a member of the Legion of Mary and the Knights of Columbus, and serves as lector, Eucharistic Minister, altar server and sacristan at the local Catholic Church....