Order code: HCFR | 978-1-59525-034-6 | Paperback | 6 x 9 | 232 pages | Language: English | Copyright Year: 2011
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Fr. Aidan Nichols' book The Conversation of Faith and Reason has extreme relevance today as Catholics continue to come to grips with moral relativism and conscience in an increasingly secular world where at times reason and science are pitted against religion. Just as secularism and modernity can tear at the fabric of faith, liturgy pulls faith and reason together. Aidan Nichols charts the development of the faith and reason through the key figures who set the terms of the debate between faith and reason where official Catholic teaching is concerned, and whose theologies influenced modern theological thought as the twentieth century drew to its close in the encyclical letter Fides et ratio (1998) of John Paul II.
"This study will awaken a long needed English language interest in modern Catholic thought and illustrates how liturgy sometimes is being misunderstood as being merely a morally edifying or socializing human institution. The Conversation of Faith and Reason is a superb and balanced study by one of the great theological minds in English-speaking Catholicism. It is a testimony to serious and rigorous thinking, presented in elegant language. This volume is ideal for use in the courses "Fundamental Theology" and "History of Christian Thought". ... Father Aidan Nichol's Conversation of Faith and Reason: Modern Catholic Thought from Hermes to Benedict XVI offers a survey of the main currents of modern Catholic thought that inform Pope John Paul II's 1998 encyclical Fides et Ratio. He explores the way in which 'reason' and 'faith,' and their relationship, have been understood by leading Catholic philosophers and theologians since the early 1800sHe writes as both a historical theologian and a dogmatician in the area of fundamental theology. The book therefore belongs in the hands not of those who seek popularized depictions of faith and reason, but rather in the hands of those looking for high-level discussions of how humans come to know, to desire, and to express the truth about God and human beings."
—Matthew Levering,
James N. and Mary D. Perry, Jr. Chair of Theology
University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary
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