Faith in Christ is not credulity. Peter Kreeft wrote extensively on this topic in THE HANDBOOK OF CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS and it was taken for granted that reason and faith were allies until a few hundred years ago. ----- And since then a lot has happened, not only in the sciences, but also in Christianity itself. There were discoveries like the Codex Sinaiticus, and other early versions of the biblical texts--the KJV being based on a text that took shape somewhere around 1000 a.d--and a more extensive and rigorous biblical scholarship. These developments led some thinkers, like Kierkegaard, to maintain that faith was essentially an irrational existential act, incompatible with reason...hence K's famous "leap of faith" phrase. However the word translated as "faith" does more resemble "trust in" than "fall for." Yet I think the "reason and faith are allies" view hasn't made much headway, unless you count CS Lewis as headway. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html