(The Conversation) — I teach a philosophy of religion seminar titled “Faith and Reason.” Most students who register arrive with a mistaken assumption: that the course explores the differences between ...

Monasteries, manuscripts and slow thought shaped centuries of ideas about God, reason and human duty. Medieval philosophy ...

The transatlantic navigator who makes an error of a fraction of a degree may land many miles away from his intended destination. Faulty philosophy can have similarly ...

“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” ...

Jurgen Habermas’ text addressed to a specifically Catholic audience is one of two such important speeches of the first decade of the twenty-first century. The first, at the invitation of the Catholic ...

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 ...

Boethius, a sixth-century Roman statesman, was in the prime of his life when his political career was brought to a sudden and ignominious end. Running afoul of corrupt politicians, he was falsely ...

In my last entry, I pointed out that we all simply have to take a leap of faith when we believe that the world is real, and not a dream. The leap of faith was a large part of the work of the ...

The battle lines in the supposed war between reason and tradition, science and faith, in the 18th and 19th centuries are a fitting entry point into the life and work of Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Russian ...