tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9445962.post4194208348790879032..comments2024-03-28T22:25:45.761-05:00Comments on The White Rhino Report - “A Marketplace Where Many Diverse Ideas Meet for Coffee!”: Some Thoughtful Insights Into the Abdication of Pope Benedict from Andreas Widmer, Former Body Guard to Pope John Paul IIThe White Rhinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08510080328755228237noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9445962.post-59657265469666662462013-02-15T15:37:22.247-05:002013-02-15T15:37:22.247-05:00"In very general terms, John Paul was a philo..."In very general terms, John Paul was a philosopher who explained the Faith as an answer to the philosophical challenges from Ockham, Descartes, Kant, and Marx. Benedict XVI is the theologian who explains the Faith in very clear and liner terms, encouraging us to read the Bible again as God's ongoing Divine revelation rather than as a historical novel or ancient myth. As popes, they both lead the Church faithfully and effectively. John Paul in a sense started the project that Benedict would bring to completion."<br /><br />Fascinating.<br />Philosophy is the handmaid of theology. I attended a Catholic university with a seminary. Many seminarians majored in philosophy and all of them had to take a good amount of it even if they didn't major in it. They weren't allowed to major in theology, that study would come later with post-graduate training. They studied philosophy as a pre-requisite to further formation.anyonenoreply@blogger.com