Theology

<p>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 <em>facts</em> 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?</p>