Giuseppe Barzaghi

Giuseppe Barzaghi (born March 5, 1958) is an Italian philosopher, theologian and priest of the Dominican Order. Disciple of Gustavo Bontadini, he served as the head of the Anagogic School founded by Cardinal Giacomo Biffi. He was also the main interlocutor of Emanuele Severino for discussions about God and Christianity.

Quotes of Giuseppe Barzaghi

• It is true that to admit the eternity of the whole would be to deny creation, to deny historicity, but the very essence of Christianity presents itself in some revealed elements as that which demands the transcending of history.
  • As quoted in Giuseppe Barzaghi. Dio e il concetto filosofico di eternità del Tutto, raicultura.it (January 2019)

• When he (Thomas Aquinas) wants to represent the activity of our reason in knowledge, he takes the image of the flight of birds and says: there is the bird that flies in a rotating, circular way, or the flight that goes forward and backward or the flight that goes from top to bottom, from bottom to top. Circular motion is contemplative motion, motion that goes forward is from cause to effect, backward is from effect to cause, from top to bottom is deduction, from bottom to top is induction. Remembering the flight of birds recalls all the formalities of cognitive activity.
  • As quoted in Andrea Galli, Il lascito di san Tommaso d'Aquino: "fede, ragione e immaginazione", avvenire.it (in Italian, 27 January 2024)

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