Inner Dimensions of Truth: Paradigms for the Faith and Mission of Catholic Education

Moses Aaron Angeles

doi:10.57106/scientia.v12i2.166

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Moses Aaron Angeles San Beda University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1641-4286

https://doi.org/10.57106/scientia.v12i2.166

Keywords:

Truth, Faith, Mission, Catholic Education

Abstract

The paper examines the inner dimensions of truth by investigating Jewish-Christian Scriptures, Doctors of the Church (Augustine, Aquinas, and Bonaventure), and Pontiffs (John Paul II and Benedict XVI). Through phenomenological and dialogic thinking, the inner dimension of truth is surfaced as personal and interior enlightenment and divine revelation (Scriptures), as dialogical communications (Benedict XVI), as God's grace bestowing perpetual liberation (Augustine and John Paul II) as the realization that man is a manifestation of God (Aquinas), as action (Scriptures and Bonaventure) as reciprocal acts of love, justice, and the promotion of the common good (Scriptures and Benedict XVI). These inner dynamics serve as a framework of Catholic education, teaching the notion of truth according to its faith and mission, establishing a Divine – human relatedness and an initiation process. Truth is bestowed, and humans are encouraged to accept and present themselves to Truth.

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Author Biography

Moses Aaron Angeles, San Beda University

MOSES AARON T. ANGELES is Full Professor of the Department of Social Sciences and the Humanities and currently the Vice Dean of the Arts, Sciences and Humanities Cluster of the College of Arts and Sciences, San Beda University, Manila. He earned all of his academic degrees in Philosophy from The Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Bachelor of Arts in 2002, Master of Arts in 2005, and Doctor of Philosophy in 2010. In 2011, barely a year after finishing his doctorate degree, he became Research Fellow of the Institut Superieur d’Philosophie (Centre for Metaphysics and Philosophy of Culture) of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He is also Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Heidelberg in Germany, Facultad de Filosofia, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain in 2007 and 2008, Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC Paris, France) and the International Court of Justice, The Hague, Netherlands in 2005. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Scientia: The International Journal on the Liberal Arts (www.scientia-sanbeda.org), published by the College of Arts and Sciences of San Beda University, and Associate Editor of Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy (www.kritike.org), published by the Department of Philosophy of the University of Santo Tomas. He has attended various conferences and read papers on different philosophical issues locally and abroad and published scholarly articles in different peer-reviewed academic research journals. In 2010, he is Plenary Lecturer on Heidegger and Political Theology during the Political Theology Agenda held at the University of Geneva in Switzerland and again in 2017 during the Major International Conference on the Works of St. Bonaventure held at the Franciscan Institute of St. Bonaventure University, New York, United States of America.

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