This textbook will give students a clear understanding of the connection between faith and reason. Illuminating Faith gives students a clear and accessible introduction to some of the major ways faith and the relationship between faith and reason have been understood within Western Christianity. In twenty-six short and easy to digest units it covers different accounts of faith beginning with Scripture, moving through the history of Christian thought, and ending with contemporary views. Along the way it explores some of the decisive theological and philosophy accounts of faith, such as faith seeking understanding, faith and supernatural virtue, faith and skepticism, and faith and science. Yet it also includes significant issues and movements not typically covered in introductory texts, such as documents from church councils, faith as knowledge, assent, and trust in the Protestant scholastics, faith and the heart in pietism, secularized accounts of faith, faith after Auschwitz, and faith and liberation. The goal of each unit is to introduce students to topical issues surrounding the nature of faith, to provide historical background for each topic, and to generate further discussion and reflection on the nature of faith. The result is a well balanced and unique introduction to various understandings of faith. Designed specifically with classroom use in mind, Illuminating Faith includes a glossary of words, an update-to-date bibliography, and each chapter ends with questions for discussion as well as suggestions for relevant reading material.

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Information

Publisher

T&T Clark

Year

2015

ISBN

9780567656070

Edition

Topic

Theology & Religion

Subtopic

Christian Theology

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Contents
Introduction: Faith Rules
1 Faith in the Bible
2 Personal Faith: St. Augustine
3 Ecclesial Faith
4 The Limits of Reason 1: The Council of Orange
5 Thomas Aquinas: Systematic Faith
6 Faith, Hope and Love: The Supernatural Virtues
7 Faith and the Freedom to Serve: Martin Luther
8 Faith as Knowledge, Assent and Trust: Protestant Scholasticism
9 Faith and Rebirth: Pietism
10 Faith Ridiculed: Hume’s Bonfire of the Vanities of Christian Rationalism
11 Pure Religious Faith: Immanuel Kant
12 Faith and Feeling: Friedrich Schleiermacher
13 Faith and the Absolute: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
14 Faith and Paradox: Søren Kierkegaard
15 The Limits of Reason II: Vatican I
16 Faith and the Faithfulness of God: Karl Barth
17 The Dynamics of Faith: Paul Tillich
18 Kenotic Faith: Hans Urs von Balthasar
19 Anonymous Faith: Karl Rahner
20 Faith in Crisis: Death of God, Auschwitz and Militant Atheism
21 Faith and Science: Beyond Reciprocity
22 Faith and Liberation
23 Basic Beliefs: Reformed Epistemology
24 The Phenomenology of Faith: Fides et ratio
Epilogue: The Future of Faith
Glossary
Bibliography
Index