Reason and the Reasons of Faith

Griffiths, Paul J. & Reinhard Hütter (Eds)

ISBN 10: 0567028305 / ISBN 13: 9780567028303

Published by T & T Clark, New York, 2005

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Theology for the Twenty-First Century; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 373 pages; 2005 T & T Clark. HC/DJ. Snugly bound and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket. Prior owner's small circular ownership blind stamp top corner of the half title page; trace shelf rubbing to jacket surfaces. VG++/VG++ or better.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reason and the Reasons of Faith
• Publisher: T & T Clark, New York
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0567028305
• ISBN 13: 9780567028303
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Seller catalogs:
  • Theology
  • Christianity

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Synopsis

Faith and reason are presently in crisis. This judgment, albeit controversial, constitutes the foundations of this book. The central danger of this crisis does not so much consist in the denial as in the banalization of God, whether as a fundamentally irrational claim of faith or at best as a purely regulative idea of reason. However, offering an account of the hope that is in us, and hence of the faith that gives rise to hope, requires on the part of Christian theology a rigorous intellectual effort, in short, the unfettered use of reason for the sake of faith in the God who is always greater than anything that can be thought. The purpose of this volume is to inquire into the reasons of faith in order to offer theological resources to address constructively the double crisis of faith in reason and reason in faith. First, it looks into the theological constitution of reason; second, into reason as one specific faculty of human being; third, into the significance of the philosophical shifts of modernity for theology; and fourth, into the importance of philosophy for theological inquiry.

About the Author

Paul J. Griffiths is Schmitt Chair of Catholic Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago. He has published six books as sole author, most recently Lying: An Augustinian Theology of Duplicity.Reinhard Hütter is Associate Professor of Christian Theology , Duke University Divinity School. He has published four books as sole author, most recently Bound to be Free: Evangelical Catholic Engagements in Ecclesiology, Ethics and Ecumenism.