Man is
created full of giftedness and surprises. He is endowed of rational capacity
that helps him to find his ultimate quest/purpose of existence. Part of this
quest is to know his importance and to go deeper in the level of mystery on how
he came into being and life. Man’s giftedness draw him to journey of finding
the truths from all the things around him which are evident and sensible. Man’s
prior truth is that whatever can be seen, touched, felt, heard, and smelled
considered as his basis of qualifying it as true and genuine. But to the extent
of digging deeper to its origin and creator especially in the side of
spiritual. Man find it hard to reconcile
the connection and even the relationship of the visible world to the invisible
one. Man need some investigation in order to satisfy his ultimate quest of
unlocking the truth.
According
to Fr. William Malley, SJ. , he presented the most helpful book about the Four
Zones of Truth and Vitality. For him the first two zones speaks about science
and arts. It is presented in the book, Science is Man’s tool of unlocking the
basic mystery of life through the different scholarly research and field
studies which can solve the basic problems of it. For whatever can be perceived
and of with our senses, man can able to identify and find answer of it so long
it is quantifiable, measurable and product oriented. In the first zone, man
must be able to go beyond the physical realms in order to reach to the second
zone – the Arts. For Malley, the second zone serves as one way for human person
to achieve his potentials to become fully human. It opens up to the world the
different opportunities of expressing their thoughts, ideas, visions and dreams
through artistic forms of media. The task of man is to marry both the first and
second zone in order to widen the horizons of truths and life. The book said, the unity and diversity
between the dynamism of truth and life on the level of science and arts must be
intertwined using the special ingredient of Christian Faith Experience in which
we can finally say that “the end of science is now the beginning of
allowing God to speak to us in an artistic way of presentation or even
communication”.
Difficult as
it may be to marry the two zones, for man still need to consider the remaining
two zones, Philosophy and Theology. These two higher zones of truth and
vitality can greatly help man to reconcile and find his ultimate purpose of
existence. The main task is that, man must always carry in his whole being the
reality that He is not a being in itself. He is not a being that exist in itself and
he is not a being that creates the self. It is man’s special quest to
find his best – purpose in accordance to the plans/will of his ultimate creator
– God.
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