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The Pragmatic Meaning of God Aquinas Lecture ; 1966
author
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Johann, Robert O.
publisher
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Marquette University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0874621313
print isbn13
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9780874621310
ebook isbn13
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9780585138992
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English
subject
God--Addresses, essays, lectures.
publication date
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1966
lcc
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BT113.J6 1966eb
ddc
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231
subject
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God--Addresses, essays, lectures.
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The Aquinas Lecture, 1966
The Pragmatic Meaning of God
Under the Auspices of the Wisconsin-Alpha Chapter of Phi Sigma Tau
By Robert O. Johann, S.J., Ph.D.
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY PRESS MILWAUKEE 1966
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Nihil Obstat
John A. Schulien, S.T.D., censor librorum Milwaukiae, die 13 mensis Junis, 1966
Imprimatur
+William E. Cousins Archiepiscopus Milwaukiensis Milwaukiae, die 5 Julie, 1966
Imprimi Potest
Very Rev. John J. McGinty S.J. Provincial, New York Province June 16, 1966
Second Printing1967
Third Printing1970
Library of Congress Catalog Number 66-26282
Copyright 1966 By the Wisconsin-Alpha Chapter of the Phi Sigma Tau Marquette University
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Prefatory
The Wisconsin-Alpha Chapter of Phi Sigma Tau, the National Honor Society for Philosophy at Marquette University, each year invites a scholar to deliver a lecture in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas whose feast day is March 7. These lectures are customarily given on the first or second Sunday of March.
The 1966 Aquinas Lecture "The Pragmatic Meaning of God" was delivered on March 6 in the Peter A. Brooks Memorial Union of Marquette University by Fr. Robert O. Johann, S.J., Associate Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University.
Fr. Johann was born in New York, in 1924. He earned the A.B. in 1947 and the M.A. in 1948 at St. Louis University. In 1953 he received the Ph.D. from Louvain University, Belgium.
He began his teaching career at the College of Philosophy and Letters, Fordham University in 1956. In 196364 he was Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy
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at Yale University. The following year he became Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham, University. From 19621966 he was Councillor of the Metaphysical Society of America.
Fr. Johann's publications include: The Meaning of Love (Westminster: Newman Press, 1955); "Experience and Philosophy," in Experience, Existence, and the Good, ed. I. C. Lieb (Southern Illinois University Press, 1961); "Teilhard's Personalized Universe," in Teilhard Conference Proceedings (Fordham, 1961); "Love and Justice," in Ethics and Society, ed. Richard T. De George (Garden City: Anchor Books, 1966); "Knowledge, Commitment and the Real," in Wisdom in Depth, ed. V. Daues, M. Halloway, L. Sweeney (Bruce Publishing Company, 1966); articles in The Review of Metaphysics, Cross Currents, Thought, and America.
To this list of publications Phi Sigma Tau is pleased to add: The Pragmatic Meaning of God.
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The Pragmatic Meaning of God
Our aim is to discern anew the bearing or import of belief in God on the quality of our lives. Certain factors in contemporary life tend to obscure that import. Indeed, we have become so specialized in our interests and concerns that, for many, a question about the overall quality of life never even arises. Yet, as I shall try to show, it is central to the whole of philosophy. To give a certain order to my remarks, I have divided what follows into three sections. First, I shall examine the pervasive quality of life today. This, it is hoped, will disclose the reasons for the present eclipse of God. Secondly, I shall analyze the notion itself of "quality of life" in an effort to see what it involves and how to come to grips with it philosophically. Finally, an attempt will be made to spell out in some detail the way in which belief in God can enhance the quality of our own lives.
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The present age is one in which the past is coming unstuck. Old attitudes, habits and ways of acting, valid and operative for centuries, no longer seem to be so. There is hardly a single area in our cultural and institutional life which is not being subjected to critical reappraisal. It is not surprising that, in a time of such general ferment, traditional ideas of religion and of God should be coming under attack. The mass media have made us all familiar with the paradoxical notions of a religion less Christianity and of a theology without God. But, although the fact of our changing attitudes and mores is manifest, the reasons underlying these changes are less so. At the outset, therefore, I would like to examine some of these reasons. For if our former pattern and way of life is breaking down, it is because it is no longer experienced as adequate. Something new is being disclosed on the level of experience which demands a new stance on our part, a new adjustment. If we feel dissatisfied with our present posture, it is be-
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cause we feel at the same time that something else is required of us. What is it, then, that lies at the root of our present restlessness and dissatisfaction, and which is felt to be left out of account by our present ways of adjusting to the demands of reality?
Underlying and implicit in contemporary man's negative reaction to the past and to tradition is a new experiential awareness of himself, a new practical grasp of himself. Because this grasp has only begun to exert a distinctive influence, and because, moreover, it is manifested largely by way of opposition to what has gone before, it resists positive characterization. However, I think a few points can be made which may not only illumine its negativity with regard to present conditions, but also throw some light on specific future requirements.
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