Resumen de Emanuele Severino e la fede cristiana come dubbio
According to E. Severino, the Catholic doctrine of faith which traces back to Aquinas is rationally unsustainable. Severino claims that the Thomistic conviction that faith enjoys certainty and, at the same time, lacks rational evidence is inconsistent. This is why for him the Christian faith is dubitable. Some scholars have noticed that Severino’s thesis is irremediably affected by the implicit claim that the Christian faith is to be evaluated in the light of mere rational criteria. In this essay, I intend to take their reflection a step further. I shall emphasize that it is the love for God – which God himself grants human beings – that lies at the center of Aquinas’s doctrine of faith. For the Angelic doctor, charity leads the faithful to completely trust in God and firmly believe the revealed truths. In addition, I shall point out that the love relationship with God does not at all weaken the potentialities of human reason. On the contrary, for Aquinas it is precisely the trust in God that stimulates the believers to use reason to the best of their abilities.
