This concern for both particularity and encounter means that SR avoids philosophical attempts to resolve
the conflicting claims of each faith.
Not exact matches
Furthermore, being that many different
conflicting faiths claim success in sobriety we see that it is
faith itself, not the validity
of those beliefs, that seem to work for people.
Thick
faiths like Catholicism are in tension with reason because
of their complexity; other evidence might
conflict with
claims from the
faith.
Although the formulation
of the question was not always precise, the everyday experience
of black suffering, arising from black people's encounter with the sociopolitical structures controlled by whites, created in my consciousness a radical
conflict between the
claims of faith on the one hand and the reality
of the world on the other.
Are not Jews and Christians perennially bound together in theological
conflict by the very nature
of their
faith, both
claiming election by the one and same God?