Faith or Reason?
I’m still thinking about my conversation with an atheist this weekend. Try as I might, I was unable to convince him that “faith” and “reason” aren’t enemies. I needed backup. Where was Peter Kreeft when I needed him?!
"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
I’m still thinking about my conversation with an atheist this weekend. Try as I might, I was unable to convince him that “faith” and “reason” aren’t enemies. I needed backup. Where was Peter Kreeft when I needed him?!
Faith is the DEFENDER of reason. The practicing Catholic knows this.
As beautiful and as useful as scientific rational is, it can only elucidate at most a limited sphere of knowledge. To understand reason through faith is to understand your humanity.
“There is in us threefold knowledge: sense knowledge, attained through the senses; rational knowledge, acquired through the intellect; and spiritual or supernatural knowledge, obtained through faith. The last is by far superior to the other two.” -Father Adolphe Tanquerey