{"id":2430,"date":"2025-05-09T09:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T09:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/?page_id=2430"},"modified":"2025-12-16T15:00:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:00:54","slug":"glossary-philosophy-and-theology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/?page_id=2430","title":{"rendered":"GLOSSARY – Philosophy and theology"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY, AN A-DUALISTIC RELATIONSHIP<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\u201cPhilosophy\u00a0must be, above all, the \u201cwisdom of love<\/em> \u2026 Not by logos alone can one live, but only by the mystic experience can one live to God\u201d (\u201cPhilosophy as Lifestyle\u201d).<\/p>

\u201cThe separation of philosophy and theology is deadly to both of them.It is fitting to distinguish them,<\/em>\u00a0but they cannot be separated.\u00a0Their relationship is not dualistic,\u00a0but rather a-dualistic,\u00a0advaita (Mort i resurreci\u00f3 de la teologia,\u00a0<\/em>Vic 2002).<\/p>

Panikkar recognizes the distinction between Philosophy and Theology, the one, thought based on reason, and the other on that which takes into account religious faith. He also is well acquainted with the historical battles between faith and reason. However, a fundamental conviction that is the backbone of all his theological thinking is that the separation between philosophy and theology is artificial and even pernicious for both of them. The necessary resurrection of philosophy and theology can only come about through a new meeting between them.<\/p>

Furthermore, we must keep in mind Panikkar\u2019s conception that philosophy\u00a0is, above all, the \u201cwisdom\u00a0of love\u201d. We need, therefore, \u201ca wisdom at once divine and human\u201d<\/em>. Indeed, humanity has seen it in this way since antiquity; but the harmony has rarely been achieved. The equilibrium has been displaced toward dehumanizing theocentrisms or toward degrading anthropocentrisms \u2026 The philosopher is a lover of wisdom because he participates in the\u00a0wisdom of love<\/em>\u00a0… he has not sundered love from knowledge nor subordinated one to the other\u201d\u00a0(La experiencia filos\u00f3fica de la India)<\/em>. For much of time humanity searched for ultimate truth with its entire being, without making distinctions between philosophy and theology, but later a\u00a0process of discrimination and gradual splitting\u00a0came about. The harmonious union between reason and faith is what gives rise to an authentic philosophy and an authentic theology.<\/p>

For Panikkar faith and reason<\/em> must again be integrated in a complementary fashion in the West. It may be that this discrimination between faith and reason was necessary, but the confrontation has been harmful and destructive to both, since the autonomous development of both lines of knowledge has been accompanied by a negative disintegration.<\/em> Panikkar feels that this corruption has affected theology, now regarded as a pure \u201cscience\u201d, a dialectical deduction of conclusions drawing their inspiration from a predetermined revelation, thus causing it to lose its true sapient (knowledge-based) perspective. Reason and faith, philosophy and theology need to once again travel together in search of a true wisdom with neither supplanting the other, but rather harmoniously complementing each other.<\/p>

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PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY, AN A-DUALISTIC RELATIONSHIP \u201cPhilosophy\u00a0must be, above all, the \u201cwisdom of love \u2026 Not by logos alone can one live, but only by the mystic experience can one live to God\u201d (\u201cPhilosophy as Lifestyle\u201d). \u201cThe separation of philosophy and theology is deadly to both of them.It is fitting to distinguish them,\u00a0but they cannot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2430","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5287,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2430\/revisions\/5287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}