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born 1958 Italy
Giuseppe Barzaghi (born March 5, 1958) is an Italian philosopher, theologian and priest of the Dominican Order. Disciple of Gustavo Bontadini, he served as the head of the Anagogic School founded by Cardinal Giacomo Biffi.
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Intelligence in a complex society like ours should tell us the strategy to simplify it.
The perfect gait of God is the gait of the creature who abandons himself to God.
Science is not progress: Pyrrho the skeptic said that there is nothing certain among men, so only by going beyond the order of the human can certainty be found.
We do not understand spiritual things except from those that belong to sensoriality. There is nothing in the intellect that has not previously been in the sense, this is another of its axioms.
What is divine knows no obstacles, it is effortless, God's Grace and gifts are effortless because they are an involvement, a letting oneself be conquered by God.
For me the vocation is compassion.
St. Paul says that the Christian is sad yet always joyful, which means that he is serene and this serenity is found in faith. During this period there is a great recovery of the sense of faith.
It is true that to admit the eternity of the whole would be to deny creation, to deny historicity, but the very essence of Christianity presents itself in some revealed elements as that which demands the transcending of history.
Faith matures in mystical experience in deep feeling when the gifts of the Holy Spirit intervene, but these gifts also touch the intellectual aspect of faith. The challenge of known truth is a sin against the Holy Spirit. The “beautiful battle” of faith consists in overcoming the fear of surrender, paying attention to the way one listens to the divine voice.
Everything that appears is eternal, even if it does not always appear, according to the logos being is and non-being is not, everything is eternal, so when an entity does not appear it continues to be anyway.
Philosophy as soon as it falls into a good heart, well cultivated by Grace, then it is called consolation. He comes to smell compassion and doesn't even have the courage to say what it smells like, because it smells… so as not to offend. And this is religious life.
There is a coincidence of Christ's passion, death, and resurrection in the same instantaneous act of creation, what is squared in the universe is wrapped in this instantaneity. Severinus must admit becoming, which, however, is for him the appearance and disappearance of the eternal.
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