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Faith and Reason, Part 5: Hume

January 27, 2019 by Mark Hansard No Comments

David Hume (1711–1776) was a Scottish philosopher and historian well known for his arguments against traditional Christian theism that had a great impact on the Enlightenment.

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Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: creation, David Hume, Enlightenment, faith, faith and reason, faith and reason series, Miracles, origins, probability theory, skepticism

Faith and Reason Part 4: Locke

December 9, 2018 by Mark Hansard No Comments

An important part to Locke’s project concerned epistemology, a branch of philosophy that defines knowledge. Epistemology deals with questions such as “What is knowledge, and how do we know when we have it?”

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Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: epistemology, evidence, faith, faith and reason, faith and reason series, John Locke, knowledge, nicholas wolterstorff, propositional logic, Revelation

Faith and Reason, Part 3: Aquinas

September 23, 2018 by Mark Hansard No Comments

Scholars who study Aquinas are divided about whether he believed that some propositions about God, for example, statements about his existence, can be adjudicated through reason alone, or whether they also require faith.

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Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: evidence, faith, faith and reason, faith and reason series, thomas aquinas, will

Faith and Reason, Part 2: Augustine

August 17, 2018 by Mark Hansard 1 Comment

Augustine was instrumental in promoting the “faith seeking understanding” conception of knowledge.

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Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: Augustine, Confessions, faith, faith and reason, faith and reason series, grace, knowledge, Plato, reason, the fall, theology, will

Book Review: Silence and Beauty, by Makoto Fujimura

October 16, 2016 by Bob Trube No Comments

A “layered” reflection on Shusako Endo’s Silence by a Japanese-American artist that explores the Christian experience of persecution in Japan, and the connections between silence, suffering, and beauty, that may draw contemporary Japanese to faith.

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion Tagged With: faith, Fumi-e, Ground Zero, intervarsity press, Makoto-Fujimura, Nihonga, Shusako Endo, silence, Suffering

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