How faith and reason are related — compatibly or conflictually — has fueled debate for millennia. Indeed, in a certain way, one longs for that debate: Today’s “whatever” betrays intellectual sloth too ...
SAN FRANCISCO – TWO WINGS: Integrating Faith & Reason, by Gonzaga University professors Dr. Brian Clayton and Dr. Douglas Kries, seeks to give the reader a non-dogmatic look into the contours of the ...
“Reason” proponents indicate that reason clarifies; explains the world before us, is coherent and reliable and testable, is the spine of science and technology, solves complex problems; etc. “Faith” ...
Recently, the Ohio legislature debated the relationship between faith and reason with HB 164. It is called the “Ohio Student Religious Liberties Act of 2019.” It passed the House in a 61-31 vote and ...
A seemingly shared conviction these days is that universities exist to produce correct opinions rather than pursue truth. In ...
One of the constantly bewildering aspects of living on planet Earth is the assumption that most human beings seem to make that faith (usually, but not necessarily, the religious variety) is a virtue.
We’ve witnessed for decades a long march by the secular Left to tear down Western civilization. The credo was best captured by Jesse Jackson’s infamous exhortation, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western civ has ...
Observation and reason are not opposed to faith, but work synergistically with faith, taught Elder Dale G. Renlund, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of ...
The genius of Western civilization is its unique synthesis of reason and faith. But today that synthesis is under attack. The genius of Western civilization is its unique synthesis of reason and faith ...
And, according to this mindset, religion and science are mutually incompatible. Religion is the function of “belief.” Science, in glaring contrast, trades only in “facts.” Of course, as is readily ...
Gladly to Learn and Gladly to Teach Essays on Religion and Political Philosophy in Honor of Ernest L. Fortin, A.A. edited by Michael P. Foley and Douglas Kries Lexington, 344 pp., $75 Dissent and ...