Reason & the Contours of Faith
Title | Reason & the Contours of Faith PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Rice |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2013-05-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1725233150 |
Can reason and religion get together? Should believers think? Can thinking people believe? Does religion have to make sense? Does careful thinking help or hinder religious experience? People have wrestled with such questions for hundreds of years, and they are just as perplexing today as ever. Reason & the Contours of Faith explores the wide-ranging issues these questions raise, from biblical interpretation and proofs for God's existence to the nature of religious conversion. Its central purpose is to find an alternative to both fideism, the idea that reason has nothing to do with faith, and rationalism, the conviction that reason has everything to do with it. Part One, "Reason and the Contents of Faith," argues that reason contributes in important but limited ways to our understanding of religion. Part Two, "Reason and the Experience of Faith," shows that reason can support religious commitment, but never produces it.
Reason & the Contours of Faith
Title | Reason & the Contours of Faith PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Rice |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 2013-05-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1625640846 |
Can reason and religion get together? Should believers think? Can thinking people believe? Does religion have to make sense? Does careful thinking help or hinder religious experience? People have wrestled with such questions for hundreds of years, and they are just as perplexing today as ever. Reason & the Contours of Faith explores the wide-ranging issues these questions raise, from biblical interpretation and proofs for God's existence to the nature of religious conversion. Its central purpose is to find an alternative to both fideism, the idea that reason has nothing to do with faith, and rationalism, the conviction that reason has everything to do with it. Part One, "Reason and the Contents of Faith," argues that reason contributes in important but limited ways to our understanding of religion. Part Two, "Reason and the Experience of Faith," shows that reason can support religious commitment, but never produces it.
Reason and the Contours of Faith
Title | Reason and the Contours of Faith PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Rice |
Publisher | Loma Linda Publishing Company |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 1991-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780944450079 |
Thomas Aquinas
Title | Thomas Aquinas PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 355 |
Release | 2013-08-29 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199213143 |
Thomas Aquinas is widely recognized as one of history's most significant Christian theologians and one of the most powerful philosophical minds of the western tradition. But what has often not been sufficiently attended to is the fact that he carried out his theological and philosophical labours as a part of his vocation as a Dominican friar, dedicated to a life of preaching and the care of souls. Fererick Christian Bauerschmidt places Aquinas's thought within the context of that vocation, and argues that his views on issues of God, creation, Christology, soteriology, and the Christian life are both shaped by and in service to the distinctive goals of the Dominicans. What Aquinas says concerning both matters of faith and matters of reason, as well as his understanding of the relationship between the two, are illuminated by the particular Dominican call to serve God through handing on to others through preaching and teaching the fruits of one's own theological reflection.
Philosophy of Religion
Title | Philosophy of Religion PDF eBook |
Author | C. Stephen Evans |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1985-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780877843436 |
C. Stephen Evans examines the central themes of philosophy of religion, including the arguments for God's existence, the meaning of revelation and miracles, and the problem of religious language.
God, Reason, and Theistic Proofs
Title | God, Reason, and Theistic Proofs PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen T. Davis |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780802844507 |
Wisely structured and clearly written, God, Reason and Theistic Proofs will make an excellent resource for those looking for an introduction to the debate surrounding the existence of God, or for those seeking intellectual validation for their faith.
Reason and the Reasons of Faith
Title | Reason and the Reasons of Faith PDF eBook |
Author | Paul J. Griffiths |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2005-04-05 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780567028303 |
A distinguished group of scholars examines the crisis of faith in reason and reason in faith.