Theology: Mythos or Logos?: A Dialogue on Faith, Reason, and History

Medaille, John; Storck, Thomas

ISBN 10: 1621386643 / ISBN 13: 9781621386643

Published by Angelico Press, 2020

Seller Inventory # I-9781621386643

Synopsis:

John Médaille maintains that philosophers-beginning with the consummate dialectician Socrates who gives Euthyphro a thorough drubbing-have illegitimately stifled the special access that theologian-poets have to ultimate truths at the heart of all human experience. Thomas Storck objects: the power to see reality as it is, to discover principles and arrive at conclusions, is as natural to man as breathing and walking; after all, even Scripture says we have no excuse if we fail to recognize God in his works, if we fail to yield to the testimony of miracles and the evidence for revelation. But what is reason, after all? Are there even facts apart from judgments, judgments apart from interpretations, and interpretations apart from worldviews developed through the stories we learn and tell one another? Back and forth it goes, as Storck defends philosophy, objectivity, and Thomism, while Médaille seeks to expose their vulnerable flanks. In a world of sound bites and short attention spans, how rare is an amiable, penetrating, sustained dialogue between two thinkers of great intelligence and undoubted good will, who, though disagreeing about many things, are still drawn back, again and again, to the central mystery of Christ, supreme Logos and sacrificial Lamb?

About the Authors: JOHN MÉDAILLE is a former businessman who retired to become an Adjunct Instructor in Theology at the University of Dallas, where he teaches courses in Social Justice for Business Students and Understanding the Bible. He has authored two previous books, The Vocation of Business: Social Justice in the Marketplace and Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective, and articles in about a dozen other books. He has been married for 48 years, is the father of five, and the grandfather of three. He blogs occasionally at The Front Porch Republic.

THOMAS STORCK writes on a wide variety of topics related to Catholic social teaching and Catholic culture and history. He is the author of five previous books, The Catholic Milieu (1987), Foundations of a Catholic Political Order (1998), Christendom and the West (2000), From Christendom to Americanism and Beyond (Angelico Press, 2015), and An Economics of Justice & Charity (Angelico Press, 2017). Mr. Storck is a member of the editorial board of The Chesterton Review and is a contributing editor of New Oxford Review. Many of his essays and articles may be found on the website www.thomasstorck.org.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Theology: Mythos or Logos?: A Dialogue on ...
Publisher: Angelico Press
Publication Date: 2020
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New