{"id":11524,"date":"2016-09-12T17:26:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T15:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/?p=11524"},"modified":"2016-09-13T00:06:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T22:06:45","slug":"10-ar-siden-pave-benedikts-regensburg-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/2016\/09\/10-ar-siden-pave-benedikts-regensburg-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"10 \u00e5r siden pave Benedikts Regensburg-tale"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Allen skriver om denne talen<\/a> i det ber\u00f8mte universitet i Regensburg i Tyskland, at: «In the opening section of the speech, Benedict cited a 14th century dialogue between a Byzantine emperor and a Persian, in which the emperor said provocatively: \u201cShow me just what Mohammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.\u201d»<\/em><\/p>\n

\"2006_b16_regensburg\"<\/p>\n

Det ble en hel del br\u00e5k etter den talen, men Allen sier at man nok skylder pave Benedikt en unnskyldning, for: «Ten years later, there\u2019s a mounting sense that perhaps the world owes Benedict an apology. The rise of the Islamic State, Al-Shabaab, Boko Haram, and other extremist Islamic movements, and the continual waves of terror and barbarism they generate, has created a sense that perhaps it wasn\u2019t Benedict who stumbled by pointing out that Islam has a problem – perhaps it\u2019s Muslims who haven\u2019t responded to the problem adequately.»<\/em><\/p>\n

Men aller viktigst, skriver John Allen: «Lost in the noise, however, is the central thing to know about the Regensburg speech, to wit: It\u2019s not really about Islam at all.»<\/em> Og han fortsetter:<\/p>\n

… In the 4,500-word address, Benedict devoted barely three paragraphs to the remark quoted above from Manuel II Paeologus, which he used to set up his reflections on the topic, which was \u201cFaith, Reason and the University.\u201d He was trying to make a point about the importance of religion never parting company with reason, and could just as easily have taken his cautionary tale from Hinduism, Buddhism, or, for that matter, Christianity.<\/p>\n

Benedict\u2019s real target in the speech is the West, identifying two worrying trends he saw (and no doubt still sees) in Western thought – one inside the Christian church, and the other in the broader culture.<\/p>\n

He devoted a significant chunk of the Regensburg speech to tracing the history of efforts at \u201cdehellenization,\u201d meaning to suggest that the use of ancient Greek concepts of reason in the early Church was really just an historical accident, and there\u2019s nothing essential about them to the Christian faith.<\/p>\n

Benedict insists that salvation history doesn\u2019t work that way, and that it was providential that the Biblical faith and Greek thought intersected. It marked a fundamental choice by Christianity, he believes, to recognize that reason is intrinsic to God\u2019s nature, and that to act irrationally is therefore to break with God\u2019s will.<\/p>\n

Benedict was even more critical of trends in Western culture to regard only the so-called \u201chard sciences\u201d as truly rational, meaning objective, and to relegate everything else – including morality – to the realm of personal preference and choice.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a disaster, he argued, because it leaves no basis for moral consensus on anything, and thus makes building a real community impossible. If there\u2019s no objective good, then what\u2019s to stop the powerful from abusing the weak, what\u2019s to stop a tyrannical majority from oppressing a minority, and on and on? …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Allen skriver om denne talen i det ber\u00f8mte universitet i Regensburg i Tyskland, at: «In the opening section of the speech, Benedict cited a 14th century dialogue between a Byzantine emperor and a Persian, in which the emperor said provocatively: \u201cShow me just what Mohammad brought that was new, and there you will find […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-katolsk","category-paven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11528,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524\/revisions\/11528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}