[lit-ideas] Re: Faith
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 15:41:22 EDT
<<Yet I think the "reason and faith are allies" view
hasn't made much headway, unless you count CS Lewis as headway.>>
I'd include Dorothy Sayers and, less recently, G. K. Chesterton....
American Protestantism has been particularly bad about divorcing reason and
faith -- indeed in many circles encouraging the view that questioning or
seeking is tantamount to the notorious Doubting Thomas syndrome. A pity.
Julie Krueger
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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.
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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.
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