ORTHODOX CATECHISM TOPICS
Searching for the Truth
By: Fr. Anthony Alevizopoulos
PhD. of Theology, PhD. of Philosophy
PhD. of Theology, PhD. of Philosophy
http://www.egolpion.com/searching_truth.en.aspx
The
problem of where the truth lies has occupied mankind down through the
ages; it is a problem that is always contemporary and of its very nature
leads man to seek an answer. The Philosophers, especially the ancient
Greeks, posed the question: "What is the truth?" and most men have
searched for it rationally. Some said that truth is an Idea, a
"principle of all things", the "prime mover unmoved" and called it God.
But
this "God", the God of the philosophers, cannot redeem. He touches only
man's rational faculty, and not man as a whole; no one can come into
personal communion with him since he is not a person, but something
impersonal; an universal Mind that acts blindly, or is so distant and so
transcendental that he has no interest in man or in the world.