Alexander Smoltczyk rekonstruiert im Spiegel vom kommenden Montag unter der mäßig originellen und vom Text inhaltlich kaum gedeckten Überschrift “Der Fehlbare” die Ereignisse rund um die Regensburger Vorlesung von Benedikt XVI. Der Text liest sich stellenweise wie ein Krimi – und ist doch in großen Teilen eine Analyse der vatikanischen PR-Arbeit. Lesenswert.
There is, for instance, one influence that grows stronger every day, never mentioned in the newspapers, not even intelligible to people in the newspaper frame of mind. It is the return of the Thomist Philosophy; which is the philosophy of commonsense, as compared with the paradoxes of Kant and Hegel and the Pragmatists. The Roman religion will be, in the exact sense, the only Rationalistic religion. The other religions will not be Rationalist but Relativist; declaring that the reason is itself relative and unreliable; declaring that Being is only Becoming or that all time is only a time of transition; saying in mathematics that two and two make five in the fixed stars, saying in metaphysics and in morals that there is a good beyond good and evil. Instead of the materialist who said that the soul did not exist, we shall have the new mystic who says that the body does not exist. Amid all these things the return of the Scholastic will simply be the return of the sane man.
[GKC The Well and the Shallows CW3:475, zit. in einem Kommentar bei The Curt Jester]
Höchste Zeit, Fides et Ratio zu lesen. Der Vatikan hat den Volltext, zum Drucken eignet sich am besten das PDF der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz, deren Website übrigens neu ist (aber immer noch keinen RSS-Feed hat).
Shrine of the Holy Whapping über die muslimische Aufregung über eine päpstliche Vorlesung:
In thinking about this, I think we see again that now, 1 1/2 years after his election, just as in the case with the upcoming liturgical documents, Benedict is returning to the themes of his opening homily. He said at that time that we lived in a dictatorship of relativism. I honestly wouldn’t have thought to employ the example which Benedict did, but it has certainly caused a stir: secularists are outraged that Benedict dare argue that Christianity is better or true, muslims are outraged that the Pope –the Pope– didn’t affirm that Islam is better or true. Is there a dictatorship of relativism? Benedict may very well have purposely let this vivid quote fly, just to prove precisely this point.
Still no one else is talking about the fact that a Turkish Muslim killed a German Catholic priest the very day that Benedict critized violence in the name of religion…
Daniel Deckers im morgigen Leitartikel der FAZ:
Für die Selbstbeschränkung der Vernunft fand der Papst in den vergangenen Tagen viele einprägsame Ausdrücke. Er sprach von “Schwerhörigkeit gegenüber Gott” und der “Verkürzung des Radius der Vernunft” und verdeutlichte so in mal einfacher, mal hoher Sprache, was er in den zurückliegenden Jahren immer mit dem Wort von der “Diktatur des Relativismus” bezeichnet hatte.
Immer? Ich kannte das Wort bislang nur aus seiner Homilie in der Missa pro eligendo Romano Pontifice.
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