For my Master's Thesis, I am planning to study Comparative Religious Ethics primarily focusing on Natural Law. This is an area I have been passionate about ever since I heard J. Budziszewski speak on the topic while at a Norman Geisler conference during my high school days. I am now in the middle of an independent study in Comparative Religious Ethics with Dr. Liederbach and am reading one of J-Bud's books again. The following quote really captures the way he masterfully combines the head and heart:
Faith readjusts disordered mental powers so that we can recognize that the evident is evident - something like removing our fingers from our ears so that the music we have been listening to sounds more like what it is. In truth, every created intellect hears the music of its Creator. As St. Paul puts it, "Ever since the creation of the world His invisible nature, namely, His eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made." The difficulty is that we human beings are prone to neglect even our duities to neighbors whom we can see; how much more prone are we to neglect our duties to God whom we cannot see.
Faith readjusts disordered mental powers so that we can recognize that the evident is evident - something like removing our fingers from our ears so that the music we have been listening to sounds more like what it is. In truth, every created intellect hears the music of its Creator. As St. Paul puts it, "Ever since the creation of the world His invisible nature, namely, His eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made." The difficulty is that we human beings are prone to neglect even our duities to neighbors whom we can see; how much more prone are we to neglect our duties to God whom we cannot see.
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