Christian Rationalism Responds

Explanation

As soon as I started studying the Christian Rationalist Doctrine in 1991, I felt that I needed to understand it, make it part of me, carry out a series of Christian Rationalist Norms and change my conduct, so that I could enjoy relative happiness and attract the Lights of the Superior Astral.

Those Norms were in the books 'Christian Rationalism' and 'Practise of Christian Rationalism'. Therefore I asked myself how should I organise and consolidate those teachings so that I could better understand them?

We know that the disclosure of a text in dialog form conforms with one of the classical structures and is one of the most unconstrained of the philosophical tradition, being often used by Plato (427-347 (B).C).

Therefore I proceeded to do the following:

I First wrote 15 questions that we all ask when we start the study of Christian Rationalism (see the Index).

Then I numbered all the paragraphs of the books" 'Christian Rationalism'. 37th Edition - 1988 and 'Practise of Christian Rationalism, 12th Edition - 1989, thus obtaining 1691 propositions.

Finally I divided those propositions so that they matched the questions. With that source material I answered the questions, transcribing in its totality, what the great Luiz de Mattos, Luiz Thomaz and Antonio Cottas wrote as doctrine about the matter, in the publications mentioned above and in the collection of books called 'Doctrinaire Letters'.

Santos - SP (Brazil), 1993

Fernando Faria

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