Sentences with phrase «faith and reason as»

You've heard of Bonaventure's famous image of faith and reason as two wings by which the soul flies toward God?

Faith and reason as essential together: This is the papal view that faith without reason leads to superstiition, while reason without faith leads to nihilism and relativism.

The Holy Father will be remembered for his enduring commitment to the compatibility and complementarity of faith and reason as we make our way through life, blessed with both the gift of our intellect and a capability to hear also the revelation of God.

Not exact matches

He cited America's history of giving «sanctuary to desperate children for centuries,» the «blight on our national reputation» when we refused to accept Jewish children fleeing the Nazis in 1939, and his Christian faith as reasons for the decision.

One major reason is that as consumers become jaded and over-exposed to advertisements and corporate brands, they are placing more trust and faith in individuals.

Thomas thinks that it is the discipline of metaphysics that asks questions about the ultimate cause of existence of things, and, as he says, «not only does faith hold that there is creation, reason also demonstrates it» (In II Sent., dist.

Atheists: I know many there are many people that practice religion just by fanaticism, I've seen many people in my opinion stupid (excuse the word) praying to saints hopping to solve their problems by repeating pre-made sentences over and over, but there are others different, I don't think Religion and Science need to be opposites, I believe in God, I'm Catholic and I have many reasons to believe in him, I don't think however that we should pray instead of looking for the cause and applying a solution, Atheists think they are smart because they focus on Science and technology instead of putting their faith in a God, I don't think God will solve our problems, i think he gave us the means to solve them by ourselves that's were God is, also I think that God created everything but not as a Magical thing but stablishing certain rules like Physics and Quimics etc. he's not an idiot and he knew how to make it so everything was on balance, he's the Scientist of Scientist the Mathematic of Mathematics, the Physician of Physicians, from the tiny little fact that a mosquito, an insect species needs to feed from blood from a completely different species, who created the mosquitos that way?

Both categories would have been unintelligible in the ancient or medieval worlds to which I had thought I was casting back a wistful eye — worlds in which reason and faith had not yet come to be regarded as utterly distinct, ultimately antithetical movements of the mind.

Why when it's a pastor, people always take that as a reason to insult Faith and the church.

There is a reason that phrase, «You must be as children» (paraphrased) is in the bible... because you really would have to be a child lacking wisdom and critical thought to believe the ridiculous books of the Abrahamaic faiths, and you'd have to ba an even bigger fool to think they are the last word in spiritual truth.

«One of the reasons I was perhaps asked to be president of the British Humanist Association is that it was felt that I wouldn't call someone with religious faith «stupid» as that's naive and simplistic,» he says.

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 voices of theological sanity, sound theology and common sense reasoning about matters of faith are out there, I find them, others here find them, as we seek them out such as here on the net.

Leaders of the Christian community saw this as an extremely grave threat to the faith; and, for this reason they fled the comforts of society and chose to live in solitude and want in remote parts of the world (such as Syria and northern Africa).

In order to have faith, you must see past all of the silliness in the bible and take a leap of faith... in other words, you must trun off your logic and reasoning portions of your mind and just believe... well some of us can not do that, and see your religion the saem as all other religions... man made and false.

The Christian tradition is full of those who have suffered death and persecution as a result of their faith and, in some cases, for no discernible reason whatsoever.

But then, of course, the seminary's opponents would use similar reasoning to suggest that the church's public teaching must regard the Jonah story as a straightforward historical account, and soon no distinction at all would be possible between what the Bible records and what it teaches, what is central to the faith and what is not.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

It was written by many people over the span of hundreds of years, it is tribal rules from the infancy of our development and arguably is not a good book at all but full of hatred, spite and unspeakable violence, and you arent allowed to use «faith» as your proof of existence... faith is nothing less than the throwing away of reason i.e. belief without evidence.

So many people who advocate or speak publicly for political or personal reasons aren't acknowledged as much when it comes to religion when someone is wanting to speak out about there faith a light bulb goes off and says we don't want to hear, or talk, or, air any thing that has to do with the mentioning of God but because of the high profile story and because this is the President of the United States it's ok hats off to them for not being ashamed to speak about there faith I agree with Richard some people just because they profess there faith doesn't mean there trying to push there beliefs on anyone people of faith have a right to free speech also.

Civility is always in short supply and one can readily agree that «we need to keep in mind the common humanity that we share with those with whom we disagree,» and that «we should never lose faith in the power of reason,» and that the Church should never be used «as a partisan political tool.»

historical Jesus, lmfao... show me any historical evidence of jesus... let's start with his remains... they don't exist - your explanation, he rose to the heavens... historical evidence - no remains, no proof of existence (not a disproof either, just not a proof)... then let's start with other historians writing about the life of Jesus around his time or shortly after, as outside neutral observers... that doesn't exist either (not a disproof again, just not a proof)... we can go on and on... the fact is, there is not a single proving evidence of Jesus's life in an historical context... there is no existence of Jesus in a scientific context either (virgin birth... riiiiiight)... it is just written in a book, and stuck in your head... you have a right to believe in what you must... just don't base it on history or science... you believe because you do... it is your right... but try not to put reason into your faith; that's when you start sounding unreasonable, borderline crazy...

To the cultured despisers of religion and Biblical morality, we say we love you, but we will oppose you — and with our COGIC friends we will strive not so much to defeat you in a cultural and political struggle as to open your hearts and minds to the life - preserving and love - affirming truths of the Gospel that reason knows and faith confirms.

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

I firmly believe that science, reason and logic are far superior than blind faith to explain the world as we experience it.

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I did not «cast off» my empirical upbringing when I became a believer; for me (as for so many others, including many scientists), there is no cognitive dissonance between reason and faith, nor any «war» between science and religion.

In the book's final pages Martin delineates what he regards as the only three possible solutions: «Only Faith,» in which the believer is dismissive of the expert opinions of the historians; «Only Reason,» in which the believer is «totally submissive to the historians»; and «Faith Seeking Understanding,» in which some sort of compromise is worked out between the historian and fFaith,» in which the believer is dismissive of the expert opinions of the historians; «Only Reason,» in which the believer is «totally submissive to the historians»; and «Faith Seeking Understanding,» in which some sort of compromise is worked out between the historian and fFaith Seeking Understanding,» in which some sort of compromise is worked out between the historian and faithfaith.

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This most basic character I described as openness to developments in the culture and presentation of reasons for the Christian faith without any appeal to supernatural authority.

Rather because it excludes faith it also excludes philosophical reason, thereby deciding all ultimate questions in advance on the basis of a liberal philosophy of nature and reason so ubiquitous as to be invisible.

It is necessary to collect the questions posed by contemporary human knowledge, especially scientific, and respond to them, showing the reasons for the faith and the plausibility of believing and living as aChristian.

So we should expect an interweaving harmony between science and doctrine, just as there is between reason and faith.

But as many people have noted — and one of the many reasons I have left religion — it is hard to rationalize with people of faith.

Even as I fight using reason, faith, the American Psychiatric Association, my mom, his friends, therapists and every piece of rational data out there, I have yet to fully uproot his convinced culpability.

That means opposing the self - contradictory «dictatorship of positivist reasoning that excludes God from the life of the community and from the public order, as well as acknowledging... human rights, and especially the freedom of faith and its exercise».

So the faith of the individual who reasons with and accepts propositional truths in the present at one end and the experience of the individual, also in the present, at the other are both dependent on liberalism as are the attempts to combine the two somewhere along the line in between.

Also, I do, unfortunately, see a direct conflict between reason and religious belief, especially as reflected in studies that have shown an inverse relationship between education and faith.

As the Pope demonstrated in Fides et Ratio in good Catholic tradition, faith and reason can not function apart from one another in the mystery of redemption.

«There's this kind of complex dance that we do as people of faith in this world and sometimes it means accepting something that's not perfect,» Metaxas said, «I think the reason this rankles, not just for me but for so many people, it reminds them of Pharisaical thinking, it's legalistic.

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».

Karl Barth, as another and very influential example, sees faith as sheer paradox, independent of and contrary to reason.

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.

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.

For this reason there are only two real alternatives to natural theology as a basis for Christian faith and theology.

Just as the child justifies the truth and usefulness of the fetus, so it is faith that judges reason and not the other way around.

And, as Pope Benedict again has said, this fundamental question, which isa question we have to answer with our intelligence sustained by the light of faith, is that if we discern reason in the world, in nature - if nature is understandable - the question arises; where does this come from?

This secular rejection of the traditional form of religious faith they see as the reason for the rise of both Nazism and communism.