Lesson 22 –
The Darkness of Faith and the Mind's Encounter with God

Faith gives us much more than knowledge of facts about God; it puts us in real contact with God himself, so that we begin to know God as our Father and our redeemer, who loves us and who saves us.

Course Reading

Summa Theologiae II-II q. 1, a. 4 | St. Thomas Aquinas

On Faith | Josef Pieper

Excerpt from On Faith by Josef Pieper:

“For what the act of belief truly aims at is reality and not a message or a report; “it [the act of belief] does not stop at something that is said but at something that is” [STh. II-II, q. 1, a. 2, ad 2]. The believer partakes truly of this reality; he touches it, and it becomes present to him--all the more so he is capable, by loving identification with the witness, of seeing with the latter’s eyes and from his position.”

Course Listening

Christian Virtue: Faith | Fr. Michael Sherwin O.P.

Knowing The Unknown God | Fr. John Winkowitsch, O.P.

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