Encyclical Letter Fides et Ratio of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the relationship between faith and reason [antikvár]

My Venerable Brother Bishops, Health and the Apostolic Blessing!Faith and reason are like two ^u^gs on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truthin a word, to know himselfso that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves (cf. Ex 33:18; Ps 27:8-9; 63:2-3; ]n 14:8; 1 Jn 3:2).INTRODUCTION"KNOW YOURSELF"1. In both East and West, we may trace a journey which has led humanity down the centuries to meet and engage truth more and more deeply. It is a journey which has unfoldedas it must^within the horizon of personal self-consciousness: the more human beings know reality and the world, the more they know themselves in their uniqueness, witntIie~^estion of the meaning ^thin^and of their~very existence becoming e^r more pressing. Thi?^ "^y all that is