Roque ferriols biography of christopher

Roque ferriols biography of christopher: A commemorative lecture on

If you are looking for a meaningful gift to give to friends and loved ones this Christmas, I recommend a wonderful book by Fr. Soledad Reyes and both versions edited by Dr. Leovino Garcia. Padre Roque—92 years old, 75 years a Jesuit, 62 years a priest, more than 50 years a philosophy teacher—is the most brilliant Filipino I have ever met. He ranks up there with Jose Rizal and another Jesuit Fr.

Horacio de la Costa in his mastery of languages, depth of insight of our culture and what makes us Filipino, and elegance in writing. As his classmate Fr. My mind and heart were forever changed by the experience of being in a Ferriols classroom. It was not just that Padre Roque enabled me to go back to the time of the first Greek philosophers, the Pre-Socratics, to share in their first experience of abstraction.

It was not just that Padre Roque helped me put on the eyes and heart of a Socrates and an Augustine searching for the truth that matters. It was not just being given an insight to the agony —the fear and trembling—and faith of the Danish philosopher Kierkegaard. Above all, Padre Roque taught me and many others how to think, how to ask questions, how to wonder, ultimately to search for God that leads us to the discovery that it is God who searches for us.