Guy Consolmagno on Religion, Truth and Interpretation

„No matter how deeply we believe God is involved in our religion, its tenets are expressed in human words by human teachers and fall on our own undeniably limited human ears. Our understanding of God is always incomplete; even Saint Paul insisted he saw only “through a glass, darkly.” Indeed, Catholic theology carefully notes that all doctrine, no matter how authoritative, embodying divine truth, still requires interpretation because our understanding of that truth is expressed in a given time and in a historically conditioned language and culture.“

Guy ConsolmagnoGuy Consolmagno on the limits of human understanding and the interpretation of religious doctrine and divine truth.
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Jesuit and chief astronomer at the Vatican, known for his research on the connection between science and religion.

Guy Consolmagno reflects on the limits of human understanding and the necessary interpretation of religious doctrine.


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Guy Consolmagno is an American Jesuit and astronomer who serves as the director of the Vatican Observatory. He is known for his efforts to bridge science and faith, especially in the fields of planetary science and extraterrestrial life.

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