Faith, Reason and Doubt

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I-STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

Introduction.............................................................................4

Purpose of the Study..................................................................6

Endnotes..................................................................................7

PART II - REVIEW OF LITERATURE

Six Impossible Things.................................................................8

Two Kinds of People...................................................................12

The Paradox.............................................................................15

A Fragile reliance..........................................................................17

A Scientist and a Christian?..........................................................21

The Obstacle Course...................................................................22

Some Words on Proof..................................................................32

Two Faces of Doubt....................................................................36

The Bridge...............................................................................39

Skepticism, Proof, and Objectivity.................................................41

A Lesson from Geometry.............................................................42

Science and Truth......................................................................43

The Bounds of Human Knowledge.................................................45

The outflank Minds.........................................................................48

The Threefold Journey...............................................................51

Faith of Jesus ..........................................................................55

Fides et Ratio, One or Both?........................................................60

The existent Problem.....................................................................64

Justified Faith..........................................................................75

The Emotional Realm of Authority................................................81

The Counterfeit Argument..........................................................84

Morality & The Quintessential Rhetoric..........................................87

Faith: Choosing Gods will over our own ideas..................................94

PART III - SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION

A Basic Choice..............................................



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BIBLIOGRAPHY

PART I - STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

Introduction

There is a story that a teacher at once asked a class for a definition of creed. One of the children answered: Faith is when you believe something which you know aint honest.

This account is traceable to Mark Twain, though I dont think it was original with him. I will fasten on it is a product of someones genius and sense of humor instead than a true story.

The point is that it could be a true story. In our modern society, faith is viewed as a wispy, refined thing, vague and shadowy. Many people, believers and unbelievers alike, could sympathize with the schoolboys definition. Yet this kind of biramous mindedness is level(p) more unbecoming an adult than it is a child, and even more unbecoming a believer than an unbeliever.

Over the last several(prenominal) years, a growing understanding has slowly dawned on me. I have come to a better conception of what faith actually is-- and, almost as importantly, what it is not.

As I grew in understanding, I also became aware that many...

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