Thank you so much for reading so far. I thought I would use today’s blog to review and summarize the Catholic view of divine revelation.
The most important principles with regard to divine revelation are these:
- God takes the initiative, not us
- He does so because he loves us and longs to be as close to us as possible
- We can know something about God through natural reason, but the knowledge is very limited, fallible and certainly impersonal.
- God wanted more for us, so he introduced himself
- Using natural reason, St. Thomas Aquinas demonstrated that God must exist in five ways (from motion, from efficient cause, from possibility and necessity, from gradation and finally from governance)
 | About Pat Arensberg Patrick Arensberg is the Director of Religious Education for the Archdiocese of Mobile. Previously, he taught for 17 years at McGill-Toolen Catholic High School, where he served as Chairman of the Theology Department. He attended the Gregorian University in Rome and holds an M.A. in Theology from Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans. He is married to Connie and they live in Mobile with their 5 children. |
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