Reason Within the Bounds of Religion

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ISBN: 9780802816047 | 0802816045
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 3/1/1984

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Widely acclaimed as a seminal work on the relationship between reason and religion, this book probes the role of faith in responsible scholarship. Philosophical in nature yet highly accessible, this volume will inform all readers interested in integrating faith and learning.

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Preface to the Second Edition	p. 9
Preface to the First Edition	p. 11
Faith and Theory	p. 13
Some historical examples of control beliefs	p. 15
The question posed	p. 21
Radical harmonizing	p. 23
Foundationalism	p. 28
Difficulties in explaining what constitutes justification of theory by foundation	p. 35
Difficulties in finding enough propositions to belong to the foundation	p. 46
What has not been claimed	p. 56
Will the Bible save foundationalism?	p. 58
The structure of theory-weighing	p. 63
Authentic Christian commitment	p. 71
How authentic commitment ought to function in theorizing	p. 76
The application of this theory of theorizing to theology	p. 85
The impact of theorizing on commitment	p. 92
Is faith a condition for knowledge?	p. 98
Some unanswered questions	p. 101
The need for theories which suggest research programs	p. 105
The challenge	p. 107
Theory and Praxis	p. 109
Learning for shalom	p. 111
Justifications for theorizing	p. 117
Choice-principles for the scholar	p. 128
Two alternative views	p. 136
A concluding objection	p. 144
Notes	p. 147
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