Faith with Reason. By Paul Helm. Pp. xvi + 185. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. isbn 0 19 823845 2. £25
Faith is a surprisingly, if not scandalously, knotty topic. It shook Christendom asunder in the Reformation. And philosophers and theologians have often hoisted up the banner of faith. For Tertullian it appears a welcome absurdity, for Pascal it seems a matter of prudence; for Kant faith is beyond r...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2005
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2005, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 810-812 |
| Review of: | Faith with reason (New York [u.a.] : Oxford University Press [u.a.], 2000) (Hedley, Douglas)
Faith with reason (Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2000) (Hedley, Douglas) |
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| Summary: | Faith is a surprisingly, if not scandalously, knotty topic. It shook Christendom asunder in the Reformation. And philosophers and theologians have often hoisted up the banner of faith. For Tertullian it appears a welcome absurdity, for Pascal it seems a matter of prudence; for Kant faith is beyond reason, for Kierkegaard it seems contrary to reason. And what any of these given thinkers really means by ‘faith’ furnishes sufficient materials for a Teutonic doctoral dissertation. Paul Helm is an expert and lucid philosopher who has written a book which is rigorous but not narrowly technical. It is also a useful review and critique of many of the major players in recent Anglo-American thought about the question of ‘faith’: Basil Mitchell, Alvin Plantinga, Richard Swinburne, D. Z. Phillips. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fli239 |