{"id":3571,"date":"2017-08-15T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augustinianheartblog.wordpress.com\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2017-08-15T10:00:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T08:00:27","slug":"day-22-two-books-doctrine-encountering-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agostinjani.org\/mt\/augustinian-heart-blog\/34-days\/day-22-two-books-doctrine-encountering-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 22 \u2013 Two-Books Doctrine \u2013 encountering God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1335\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/agostinjani.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/022-encountering-god.png?resize=3188%2C2118&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"022 - encountering God.png\" width=\"3188\" height=\"2118\" \/>Day 22<\/strong><strong> \u2013 Two-Books Doctrine \u2013 encountering God<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to this teaching, the Word of God is echoed in two books, the Book of Scriptures and the Book of the World. Both are offered to man so that he may search for and love Him who has inspired the writing of Scriptures and has created the world. And it is Augustine\u2019s conviction that Scriptures has been given to us in order to help us better understand the Book of the World. \u201cListen to the Book of the Scriptures; observe the Book of the World!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>God asks us to read the book of nature laid open before our eyes and to listen to what He wishes to say through the pages He has inspired &#8230; \u201cTo listen\u201d and \u201cto observe\/see\u201d cannot be attitudes that are merely receptive nor purely aesthetic. \u201cTo listen\u201d to the Word means to heed God who speaks; \u201cto observe\/see\u201d the world is to interpret history as that \u201cplace\u201d where God reveals his intentions. \u201cWorld\u201d therefore, means \u201cthe inhabited earth,\u201d it is \u201chuman history\u201d wherein God intervenes in order to save man. This insight is important because it tells us that dedication to the branches of learning dealing with the \u201cWorld\u201d &#8211; physics, biology, chemistry, biology etc. &#8211; has a value that is rooted in God Himself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To think that God can be encountered in creation is a Christian conviction, and it is not surprising that Christian scientists have had religious experiences as they worked in their laboratories! Augustine discusses the value of profane learning in <em>his De doctrina christiana II<\/em>, 25,38 -39,61. They are to be studied because wherever one finds the truth, there is God. The Christian however should not approach profane studies as if these have the absolute word on man and the world. Apart from this, Christians should always remember two things: study should be done with moderation (\u201cNothing too much.\u201d), and the Pauline caveat: \u201cKnowledge puffs up; charity builds up.\u201d (1 Cor. 8:1)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 22 \u2013 Two-Books Doctrine \u2013 encountering God According to this teaching, the Word of God is echoed in two books, the Book of Scriptures and the Book of the World. Both are offered to man so that he may search for and love Him who has inspired the writing of Scriptures and has created the world. And it is Augustine\u2019s conviction that Scriptures has been given to us in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-34-days"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"gform-image-choice-sm":false,"gform-image-choice-md":false,"gform-image-choice-lg":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Provin\u010bja Agostinjana","author_link":"https:\/\/agostinjani.org\/mt\/author\/agostinjani\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Day 22 \u2013 Two-Books Doctrine \u2013 encountering God According to this teaching, the Word of God is echoed in two books, the Book of Scriptures and the Book of the World. Both are offered to man so that he may search for and love Him who has inspired the writing of Scriptures and has created&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agostinjani.org\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agostinjani.org\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agostinjani.org\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agostinjani.org\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agostinjani.org\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agostinjani.org\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agostinjani.org\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agostinjani.org\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agostinjani.org\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}