Catholic Catechism #007 — The Knowledge of God

Overview:

Joseph Campbell once said “life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.”

Peter Kreeft said that we are all scientists in life and are, for the most part, all given the same data. As scientists, we’re trying to put the pieces of the puzzle of life together in a way that makes sense of it. That’s what religion is… a metanarrative that articulates life and how we should live in it.

So how do we make sense of the world? Philosophy tells us you have to start with a first principle or big idea (a theory if you will) which makes sense of the particulars.

Resources mentioned:

• The shocking truth of Christian Orthodoxy — John Behr on the necessity of first principles.
• It was Brian Cox who I meant to reference, not Brian Greene, though they are both physicists — here is his interview with Joe Rogan
• Which God is it that you don’t believe in?, by John Behr