--These are the papers of a conference on the theme of Rationality in the Calvinian Tradition, held in Toronto during August 3-8, 1981, and sponsored jointly by Calvin College, the Free University of Amsterdam and the Institute for Christian Studies (Toronto).-- --from the Introduction
--These are the papers of a conference on the theme of Rationality in the Calvinian Tradition, held in Toronto during August 3-8, 1981, and sponsored ...
Since the time of the Enlightenment in Western Europe, discussions of faith and reason have often pitted the believer against the skeptic, the theist against the atheist, and the person of one faith against the person of no professed faith. But the relation of reason to faith has been a matter of debate among believers as well. There are those who hold that religious faith can be proven or supported by rational argument. Others say that to try to give reasons and arguments does violence to religious faith, or opens it to misunderstanding and doubt, or trivializes it. "Responses to the...
Since the time of the Enlightenment in Western Europe, discussions of faith and reason have often pitted the believer against the skeptic, the theist ...