By his sensitivity to the occurrences of hate and by his courage to say it in a plausible and non-offending way, Zeljko Mardesic is more an exception than a rule in the spiritual milieu of Croatian ...culture and religiosity. This paper focuses on a short writing in which Mardesic confesses to his silence about hate. It analyses the meaning and nature of hate in an attempt to show what lies in the unsaid background of Mardesic's confession. Leaning on Heidegger and his understanding of emotion as opening the world, the author examines, through Mardesic's metaphors for hate-framework and air, the characteristics, scope and time of appearance of major waves of hate in society. Comparing hate with contempt and anger the author also shows the basic intention of Mardesic's writings on hate: exiting the framework for hate and creating a framework for forgiveness. This clearly shows Mardesic's position in society as well. Adapted from the source document.
Aim:
To discuss the relationship between God as understood in philosophy and God as understood by the Christian faith in the light of the conversion of the scientist Blaise Pascal.
Methods:
We ...offered an explanation of the philosophemeattributable to Blaise Pascal, and then examined the mean-ing of the phrase God of the philosophers, with special at-tention to Plato’s and Aristotle’s theology, and then assessed the prominent features of the Christian God. The Hellenistic environment in which early Christianity spread and its influence on early Christian theology were analysed, with special emphasis on the term logos.
Results:
Blaise Pascal’s Christian faith was not in accordance with Catholic Church, although Pascal considered himself a Catholic. We demonstrated that term God of philosophers is ambiguous term, i.e. what that God is. It appears that most probably God of philosophers is god of Aristotle or Plato because these two philosophers had the biggest impact on the evolution of natural theology. The God of philosophersis more like an impersonal concept than a person like God of faith. We presented the essential features of the Christian God: the doctrine of the Trinity, God’s creation, God’s per-sonality and God’s incarnation, and discussed on the differ-ent understandings of the term logos, and its importance. For us, the term logos served as a point of contact between the philosophical and the Christian understanding of God.
Conclusion:
Christianity is a faith based on reason, i.e. in Christian God can be known through reason and not just by faith. We tried to go beyond Pascal’s radical distinction between the God of faith and the God of the philosophers, namely through the lens of the philosophical term logos and show the there is no radical difference between the God of faith and God of philosophers
