our confidence to take part in the quaestiones disputatae of today must derive from our confidence that we are the heirs to an intellectual tradition, which is not to be preserved in some intellectual deep-freeze.
it is alive and has an important contribution to make today. it rests upon some fundamental philosophical and theological intuitions: an understanding of morality in terms of the virtues and growth in freedom; the goodness of all creation; a confidence in reason and in the role of debate; happiness in the vision of god as our destiny; and a humility in the face of the mystery of god which draws us beyond all ideology.
timothy radcliffe, master of the order
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