Sentences with phrase «faith and reason»

The union of faith and reason in his theology was important to him.

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

Our beliefs are based not on current opinion but on Faith and Reason.

One can see in this period of about 500 years the tragic evolution away from the Catholic understanding of faith and reason as complementary ways of knowing.

So as we have seen, when faith and reason struggle, it is a bad policy always to favor one side over the other.

This one is tough, as faith and reason exist in a rather tricky balance.

That's why faith and reason are a must providing one can be objective.

I'm not sure where you got the idea that I believe faith and reason are not distinct.

If faith and reason are not distinct, then the past 500 years of tension between religion and science is a sham!

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

The battle is no longer between Catholic faith and liberal reason but between two rival formulations of faith and reason linked to two distinct ways of life.

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.

They add up to a clear call for a new synthesis of Faith and Reason, in which the implications of modern science should play a significant role.

Robert Royal is President of the Washington - based Faith and Reason Institute and the author of numerous books, including The Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century: A Comprehensive World History and the forthcoming study, A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Twentieth Century.

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.»

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.

Augustine combined faith and reason in a balanced way.

Like the religious objectors, scientists wishing to separate faith and reason — a minority, but a noisy one — claim that nature, which they often think of as self - subsistent rather than as created, can not be reconciled to God, whose existence they often deny.

His thesis is that Christ, the Word or Logos of God, is at the heart of the truth about faith and reason, for logos means «reason» as well as «word».

EDITORIAL COMMENT Fr James raises some important points, both about the particular question and the wider discussion of a new synthesis of faith and reason within Catholic tradition.

He has also ordained that faith and reason belong together, however, and therein lies the problem.

«The bulk of the Regensburg address was directed to Christian intellectuals who, in the name of «de-Hellenizing» Christianity, pit biblical faith against the great synthesis of faith and reason achieved over the centuries of the Christian intellectual tradition.

Now they could better explain how faith and reason went together; how theology and philosophy, the Bible and social science all pointed to the same truth.

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.

One of the more subtle forms, yet for all that resilient and influential, of the Catholic disjunction concerning faith and reason is present in otherwise fecund thinkers.

Yes faith and reason can not be separated.

This has resulted in a way of understanding Christian faith that maximizes the «forensic» rather than the actual impact of grace and tends to contrast faith and reason, faith and works, and so on.

Reconciling Faith and Reason: Apologists, Evangelists, and Theologians in a Divided Church.

- Faith and Reason do not contradict each other and are intrinsically non-violent.

The prominent ex-Muslim went on to say that the Pope «has put himself above the fray; that is to say he has put faith and reason before other diplomatic and political considerations.»

April 17th 2008 REFLECTION ON POPE»S FAITH AND REASON AGENDA in the Catholic Herald The American Catholic writer George Weigel has suggested that Pope Benedict's Regensburg speech may prove to be his ponitificate's defining moment, comparing it to Pope John Paul II's June 1979 visit to Poland.

Our new column flows out of and replaces our Road from Regensburg column, which began in autumn 2006 shortly after the Pope's speech in Regensburg on the interplay of faith and reason today.

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

On the Way of Separation, we treat faith and reason the same way that parents treat warring siblings on long road trips: You sit on this side, and you sit on that side, and please — for the love of God — try not to hit each other!

Browning discusses the relation of faith and reason by bringing together resources from psychology and ontology.

(n. 70) Faith and Reason Furthermore God's wisdom is shown through both the natural world and through revelation.

The school's curriculum is traditional, ordered toward the end of nurturing faith and reason rather than preparing young people to climb the greasy pole of meritocratic status.

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.

In America magazine John J. Conley, S.J., of Loyola University argues in effect that we need a new synthesis of faith and reason given that «the world [of neo-scholastic philosophy] has disappeared».

In the last edition of this column we highlighted some key faith and reason themes in the Pope's latest encyclical.

And the pope is proposing that Islam do the same thing: that it interweave faith and reason, the only way to shelter it from violence.»