Second, in their anthropology, liberals prioritize the heart, while conservatives prioritize the mind. An attempted mutual heart and brain transplant between a conservative and a liberal failed because no one could find a conservative who would give up his heart to a liberal or a liberal who had any brains to give to a conservative.
There is no such thing as a heart/mind dichotomy. Kreeft is a philosophy professor and should no better than to make a statement like this. Does he associate with the Charismatics by any chance?
Third, liberals emphasize the abstract universal, the cosmopolitan, the global, while conservatives emphasize the concrete particular: individuals, families, neighborhoods and nations. (Thus, the “bad liberalism” of “leftist” communism is international socialism, while the “bad conservatism” of “rightist” nαzιsm is national socialism.)
nαzιsm had nothing to do with the (Counter-revolutionary) right. Liberals emphasize individuals not the right, unless were are talking about American Republicans who also favor “global Capitalism.”
When Dominus Iesus was issued, both groups gagged. The Fundamentalists found it too liberal and universalistic, and the Liberals found it too conservative and exclusivist. It’s not surprising that it happened to Dominus Iesus because the same thing happened to Jesus himself: Sadducees and Pharisees, Herodians and Zealots, suddenly found one thing to agree about. They had found their common enemy.
Except that he told both of them that they are not his sheep unless they repent. Let’s stop trying to paint Christ as some “Revolutionary” figure.
“God, who desires to call all people to himself in Christ … does not fail to make himself present in many ways, not only to individuals, but also to entire peoples through their spiritual riches, of which their religions are the main and essential expression even when they contain ‘gaps, insufficiencies and errors.’ Therefore the sacred books of other religions, which in actual fact direct and nourish the existence of their followers, receive from the mystery of Christ the elements of goodness and grace which they contain.
False religions do not contain nor reveal grace. False religions do not just contain ‘gaps, insufficiencies and errors,’ they offer no life and lead men only to continue in sin.
“The salvific action of Jesus Christ, with and through his Spirit, extends beyond the visible boundaries of the Church to all humanity … for all men of good will in whose hearts grace is active invisibly. For since Christ died for all, and since all men are in fact called to one and the same destiny, which is divine, we must hold that the Holy Spirit offers to all the possibility of being made partners, in a way known to God, in the paschal mystery.” But “they acquire meaning and value only from Christ’s own mediation, and they cannot be understood as parallel or complementary to his.”
This statement is filled with more Modernist ambiguity. What is the “destiny” that “all men” are called to?
Justin Martyr, the first Christian philosopher, said that because Christ is the Logos who enlightens all men (John 1:9), whatever has been truly said by the pagan philosophers is properly Christian. All truth is ultimately his truth, not Buddha’s or Muhammad’s or Socrates.’
But here lies the confusion. Muslims, Jєωs, and Buddhist are able to say certain truths, yet not consistently and fully.
“Because Christ is the only Savior and because he is already at work in their lives”
Not necessarily. The only people whom Christ is working “in” are those Catholics who are in a state of grace, and those who, through his grace, earnestly desire to be so.