[lit-ideas] Re: Faith
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- Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 15:43:18 EDT
<<His
leap was robustly critiqued by Francis Schaeffer but many Christians, >>
My God, I haven't seen that name in ......decades. I'd actually forgotten
he existed. Major flashback time.
Julie Krueger
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On May 16, 2005, at 12:10 AM, Eric Yost wrote:
> 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.
>
> -----
>
> 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.
Yes, Kierkegaard is still a major player in this grand story. His
leap was robustly critiqued by Francis Schaeffer but many Christians,
some who have never heard of him, cannot be disabused of the idea.
>
> 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.
As I do. The greatest Christian apologist of the 20th century, Lewis
combined reason with intuition, logic with imagination. I'm
currently reading LEWIS AGONISTES by Louis Markos and he writes of
Lewis recapturing the medieval sense of wonder and combining it with
a rigorous critique of modernism and postmodernism. Earlier in the
year historian Mark Noll - writer of SCANDAL OF THE EVANGELICAL MIND
- wrote a ten year anniversary piece on the book where he is
cautiously optimistic concerning the state of Christian scholarship
and the Christian life of the mind as a whole. I remain optimistic
as well.
Brian
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