Friday, August 31, 2007

Leithart on Faith & Reason

"We have...a conflict of various faith-reasons...."


For centuries, Christians have posed the dilemma of Christian theology as a problem of faith v. reason. That's a non-starter, a concession of defeat, for it assumes that there can be such a thing as a faith-free rationality. But there cannot be.

What we have is not a conflict of faith and reason, but a conflict of various faith-reasons or reason-faiths.

HT: Leithart