In the exhibition Ammerlaan researches the complex
relationship between faith and reason.
Contains 5 mind maps - Anselm, Descartes, criticisms, responses and
relationship between faith and reason.
So you have men like Thomas Aquinas putting their gigantic intellects to work on understanding God's revelation as well as
the relationship between faith and reason.
Today's generation of Catholics is being infuenced by a much more nourishing diet than was available in the 1970s, and takes for granted the good things available: the Catechism of the Catholic Church, World Youth Day, St JPII's Theology of the Body, the New Movements, Veritatis Splendor, Benedict XVI's teaching on
the relationship between faith and reason, and his emphasis on truth, beauty and a personal encounter with Christ, to name just a few.
What concept of
the relationship between faith and reason does this give us?
The subject, Benedict has said at Regensburg and elsewhere, is
the relationship between faith and reason, between violence and persuasion, between coercion and religious freedom.
Readers will recognize that Posner is not an authority on the complex and diverse
relationships between faith and reason within various religious traditions.
Not exact matches
Pointing to Natural Law to justify the
relationship between faith and policy is just the typical circular
reasoning used by religious nutbags.
In this
relationship between Church
and state, the government fosters a marketplace of ideas where religious exploration
and expression are open — where men
and women of all
faiths are able to
reason together regarding how to flourish alongside one another.
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.
Arkoun suggested that the Pope, at Regensburg, had been «right» to affirm that today «an intimate
relationship between reason and faith does not exist in Islamic elaboration
and expressions», but that it was unfortunate that he had not mentioned the very different situation that prevailed «before the death of the philosopher Averroes in 1198».
In the context of Christian theology, the problem of
faith and reason asks this question: What is the relation
between the certitude that God enters into a saving
relationship with man (most effectively
and uniquely in the historical existence of Jesus of Nazareth)
and those certitudes that seem to spring from man's commonly held ability to abstract
and verify the forms of events
and processes in the world?
Actually in this case there is no «tension»
between faith and reason; there is only the complete absence of any
relationship.