EL PASTOR Y LA FILOSOFÍA.

This article deals with the need for a pastor in today's world to understand philosophy and its modus operandi today. Thus, Christian leaders must not lose sight of the power of philosophy in shaping the thinking, and therefore, the cultures of the masses; because although the contributions of the Greek "philosophers" continue to be the motor of modern natural sciences, which in a sense is something very beneficial; However, over the multiple contributions of many in history to the philosophical arsenal, Einstein's proposal of scientific and ideological relativism marks the trend of both modernity and post-modernity. And it is this ideological relativism that gives way to ideas as crazy as Nietzsche's "god is dead", and even Butler's vulgar "ideologies". And it was only the withdrawal of these debates and the abandonment of the public arena and the academies by conservative Christians that left the doors open to the havoc wreaked by seculars on all fronts. The minister of the Lord should not allow himself the luxury of ignoring the history of philosophy, nor its methods; on the contrary, he must avoid the trap of knowing as an end in itself. The minister of the gospel must seek and encourage the servant of Christ to seek the glory of God in all that is done in the Christian's life from the cradle to the grave. The theologian, for his part, and therefore the biblical exegete and pulpit man, must avoid the trap of sanctifying Plato, Aristotle and Kant, even as he reveals himself to Athens in contempt for Jerusalem. It is necessary that the Christian theologian seeks to know, but being a divine and a biblicist, drawing his method from Scripture, instead of clouding the truth with subtle philosophical lies. His mind must seek to be nourished, not by general knowledge and the philosophical method itself, but by the Word; he must teach and preach the Word; must seek the pleasure of God and the good of souls. The minister must honor his calling, namely, to preach and teach the whole Council of God. In his balance, the man in the pulpit must make every effort not to let the method of his trade permeate the biblical method and his end. Your knowledge must be profuse, but to try to honor the Divine method. His abundant wisdom must be so that by having the mind of Christ, he avoids any pernicious mixture between Biblicism and scientism, theology and philosophy, faith and reason, ideology and piety. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]