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I think the word "faith" occupies the same role in religious discussions that the word "socialism" occupies in political...

A redated post. Roughly speaking, the word faith seems to be used by Christians in two senses or on two levels, and I will take them in tu...

This kind of reminds me of what I used to call the argument ad Kierkegaard. You can't defend the rationality of Christianity, I've ...

This concerns the famous, or infamous Bill Craig claim that the witness of the Holy Spirit provides such a powerful warrant for his belief i...

The Apostle Paul contrasts faith with sight, not faith with proof or reason. Sight is a particular type of proof, one that we lack for a lo...

A redated post. I think I am seeing people fall into some common confusions about objectivity, subjectivity, absolute truth, provability, ...

 Whenever someone brings up the word faith in this class, I am going to ask them what they mean by it. Some people mean by faith simply conf...

Faith and Reason Should Religion be Rational? Hume’s “fideism” In his famous essay on miracles, after presented a famous argument aga...

A redated post. In response to Mr. Aspray, I would hope that he gets the chance to read the second chapter of my book, "Assessing Apolo...

A redated post. t's important not to over-emphasize, or to under-emphasize, the role of reason in C. S. Lewis. It is often assumed that ...

Nonbelievers sometimes are so firmly convinced of their nonbelief that they suppose that theists somehow can't really be serious if they...

I. Aquinas and the challenge of Aristotle • Aquinas thought that adopting Aristotelianism did not lead to heretical conclusions. • He became...