The Life of Wisdom

Abstract

Tony Kelly explicitly takes wisdom as the topic of this chapter and identifies three kinds, namely, wisdom as one of the gifts of the Spirit, philosophical wisdom and theological wisdom, and he deals with each of these. Kelly begins with Pope John Paul’s Fides et Ratio and its reference to Aquinas’ theology of the role of the Spirit in wisdom. Kelly refers to the concept of “connaturality” as a way of understanding how a sense for the divine mysteries comes about.