Sentences with phrase «between faith and reason»

What concept of the relationship between faith and reason does this give us?

The «faith and learning» group is now organizing a series of programs about what a dialogue between faith and reason entails.

«There's this artificial idea that there's conflict between faith and reason,» he says.

The alliance between faith and reason has been a mark of the Christian tradition since the second century, if not earlier.

We get a strong suggestion from the Gospel about the right way to handle struggles between faith and reason.

This added quality can be stated in terms of the difference between religious and intellectual integrity or in terms of the relation between faith and reason.

If believers can not defend these things, then we should give up the idea that there is any connection between faith and reason.

The tension that must necessarily exist between faith and reason is broken.

The call for a mutual support agreement between faith and reason has often been rejected, both by some of the faithful and by many scientists.

But the greater their success in coordinating faith's mysteries and human experience, the less clear became the distinction between faith and reason, supernatural and natural orders.

In renewing the covenant between faith and reason, the Society of Catholic Scientists serves the good of both — and of our culture.

If you disagree, you really don't understand the difference between faith and reason.

The beginnings of experimental science implied no contradiction between faith and reason.

I doubt you would even care to engage in a real discussion about your alleged «logical inconsistencies» or about the true relationship between faith and reason.

If, as I would argue, the above three ways of resolving struggles between faith and reason are dead ends, is there any other option?

«Though faith is above reason, there can never be any real discrepancy between faith and reason.

There is something to be said for Mr. Walker's analysis, but the real divide is not between faith and reason but between those who do and those who don't pit faith against reason and reason against faith.

Through the two hemispheres of the human brain, each making distinctive contributions to human activity, a fresh way is provided for comprehending the traditional tension between faith and reason, ecstasy and ethics, eros and agape.

We Christians feel ourselves in solidarity with all those who, precisely on the basis of their religious convictions as Muslims, work to oppose violence and for the synergy between faith and reason, between religion and freedom.»

Readers will recognize that Posner is not an authority on the complex and diverse relationships between faith and reason within various religious traditions.

As most people operate with broad, ugly ditches between faith and reason, nature and grace, and the realms of the public and private, that fact is often missed.

The book is divided into nine thematic chapters covering St. Augustine's: route to conversion; hermeneutical circle between faith and reason; initial speculations; anthropology; theory of knowledge; understanding of free will and morality; doctrine of the nature and existence of God; conception of time and history; and political philosophy.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, as well as Pope St John Paul II, was very concerned with what the secular world sees as the opposition between faith and reason, but which the Church sees as its two wings.

Faced with a choice between faith and reason, our society will choose reason.

There can be no conflict between faith and reason because both come from one and the same God.

I think we could do worse than emulate Mary when we try to tackle the very real conflicts between faith and reason in our own lives.

In a Guardian article on November 3rd the prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan wrote concerning the «debate between faith and reason, and over the virtues of rationalism»: «The Pope's remarks at Regensburg have opened up new areas of inquiry that must be explored and exploited in a positive way, with a view to building bridges and, working hand in hand, to seeking a common response to the social, cultural and economic challenges of our day.»

I would invite all of you, therefore, within your respective spheres of influence, to seek ways of promoting and encouraging dialogue between faith and reason at every level of national life.»

Thus neo-orthodoxy set up a dualism between faith and reason, the supernatural and the natural, Christianity and other religions, God and humanity.

Opposition to Pope Benedict's now postponed appearance at La Sapienza University, has led Professor Giorgio Israel to write that the resistance of his colleagues is a sign of fear about a dialogue between faith and reason taking place.

To understand the causes of this perceived conflict between science and religion it is necessary to look at the history of philosophy and theology with regard to the fracture between faith and reason and the subsequent destruction of both in modern and postmodern thought.

This only perpetuates the myth that religion and science are at odds, and that one has to choose between faith and reason.

The Catholic Church is open to dialogue with philosophical thought; this has enabled her to produce various syntheses between faith and reason.»

I think there's a very easy - to - find line between faith and reason, where one can take the community interaction, positive messages and good moral lessons of religion and mix them with a non-theistic tradition of self - improvement, free thought and ever - striving.

In order for such aspirations to be credible, however, these schools must construe their existence as an interminable struggle between faith and reason rather than as the articulation of settled, clear positions.

This continual defensiveness has driven a wedge between faith and reason.

Those who would adapt the content of Christianity to secular standards may think that they are restoring the lost consonance between faith and reason.

The Darwin of the film, played by Paul Bettany, is a man torn asunder between faith and reason, politics and fact.

The Pope «calls for a new alliance between faith and reason, between divine light and human intelligence.

In the last of his University Sermons, preached on the Feast of the Purification in 1843, Newman provided a penetrating analysis of the relations between faith and reason.

159 Faith and science: «Though faith is above reason, there can never be any real discrepancy between faith and reason.

The real opposition is not between faith and reason but between Christian thinking and pagan thinking.

In the exhibition Ammerlaan researches the complex relationship between faith and reason.

In his 2004 book Faithful Reason, John Haldane noted «without qualification» that throughout his training in analytic philosophy he never felt any tension between faith and reason.

``... The new dialogue between faith and reason, required today, can not happen in the terms and in the ways in which it happened in the past.

««synergy between faith and reason» is the linchpin of Joseph Ratzinger's thought as theologian and pope.

All the better for this conversation, of course, if Muslim dialogue partners bring to the table a deep memory of Muslim philosophers such as al - Farabi, Averroës and Avicenna, each of whom attended in various ways to the profound connection between faith and reason, the central point of the pope's lecture.

Too often faith and reason have been defined in terms of external relations, so that the tension between them has been broken and not merely resolved, But if a tension exists between faith and reason, then each must modify the other and be modified in turn.