This is undoubtedly the most famous of Rosmini's books, in which he notes defects and abuses in the Church, but in a twofold spirit of suffering and hope. Saddened by the inevitable shortcomings of churchmen, he believed and trusted with complete certainty in the infinite power of the Holy Spirit at work in the Church. It caused him immense personal damage, but he felt that the renewal of the Church was of such great urgency that he had to be prepared to suffer for it. Rosmini borrowed the image of the "crucified Church" from Pope Innocent IV (1243-1254).
This is a new book on the Epistemology of Blessed Rosmini. It is the second book of the series ROSMINI TODAY, a series which aims at making Rosmini easier to understand. The book is light and readable, addressed to readers who like to stop and think about the root-causes of so many problems. It presents Rosmini's magnificent solution to a problem which has been debated for over 2000 years, "Where do we get all our ideas from? And, since ideas in our mind constitute our knowledge, can we be assured that we can arrive at the truth? And what is truth?" Today's crisis is about truth, in morality, religion, personhood, the existence of the spiritual soul, and so on: Rosmini has persuasive solutions to our problems.
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