Man's movement towards the eschatological communion of God in António Quadros

Abstract

The Portuguese philosopher António Quadros, assuming himself as a free thinker, seeks to establish a dialogue between philosophy, theology, science, and religious spirituality, without giving up his institutional link to the Catholic Church. He identifies the manifestation of God in the sensitive reality of the Cosmos and in the spiritual reality of cultural creation, conceiving a teleological movement of all existence toward an eschatological plenitude of fraternal harmony and immortal coexistence. He develops a metaphysics that aims to rationally explain the relationship between the infinite divine initiative and the finite worldly dynamism conditioned by death and evil, that is, the relationship between necessary eternity and contingent temporality. We will seek to present in this study how the author conceives the teleological movement of divine providence in the context of a contemporary worldview that recognizes the autonomy of natural laws and free decisions in the historical development of the world.