ABSTRACT
Petre Tutea distinguishes between the Absolute and the infinite, often quoting William Hamilton for whom all human knowledge implies limitation. He situates Kant's method of 'critique' between rationalism and empiricism, and views Kant's sublime as a 'gratuitous enchantment of our mind reflected in itself'. The practising Christian can experience the sacred dynamically in 'the necessary act of participation in truth', through liturgical worship in the Christian temple, where 'the mystery of the Trinity envelops both priest and people'. Tutea makes a clear distinction between Christian dogmas and canonical tradition, based on revelation, and Platonism, which is closer to mythology: the form of revealed truth is Christian dogma. He placed the alienation of science, art, and technology from religion within the broad cultural context in which Renaissance Christian humanism developed out of the Medieval 'Age of Faith'. In the Middle Ages, morality, art, religion, music, and science were all closely related within the unifying authority of the Church.
