For the mainland and the world, Formosa's refugee scholars guard a treasure: the tradition of humanistic and rationalistic China.
It removes the slightly rationalistic trend of the older approach which created the impression that a man could argue himself into faith, and it imbues the whole of the Catholic .
It means the displacement of what Layman Michael Novak calls "nonhistorical orthodoxy"the abstract, rationalistic theology that has dominated Catholic thinking since the .