Faith and Understanding

Faith and Understanding is the first book-length study of the age-old effort to understand Christianity from both the sides of faith and reason, looking at the work done by such figures as Augustine, Anselm, John Calvin, and Jonathan Edwards.

Introduction

vii

Part One The Main Issues

3

(76)

1. The `Faith Seeks Understanding' Programme

3

(23)

Reason -- substantive and procedural

5

(4)

Faith

9

(9)

Faith, understanding and philosophy

18

(8)

2. Faith Seeks Understanding

26

(27)

Faith Seeking Understanding and natural theology

30

(5)

Two contemporary approaches

35

(12)

Norman Kretzmann

36

(7)

Dewey Hoitenga

43

(4)

Other possibilities?

47

(6)

3. Understanding and Believing

53

(26)

A new proposal

55

(12)

The influence of Immanuel Kant

67

(2)

Objections

69

(10)

Part Two Five Case-studies

79

(126)

4. Time and Creation in Augustine's Confessions

79

(25)

Time and Eternity

80

(3)

Augustine's three problems about time

83

(2)

Augustine's responses

85

(2)

Time and creation

87

(7)

God and the creation of the world

94

(5)

Understanding and biblical interpretation

99

(5)

5. Anselm's Proslogion

104

(24)

An independent argument

110

(9)

Proslogion: the first four chapters

119

(9)

6. Anselm's Understanding of the Incarnation

128

(24)

Anselm's projects

130

(6)

Objections to the Atonement

136

(4)

Anselm's replies

140

(12)

7. Jonathan Edwards on Original Sin

152

(25)

Identity through time

154

(5)

Original sin

159

(4)

Edwards and identity through time

163

(11)

Comment

174

(3)

8. John Calvin's Sensus Divinitatis

177

(28)

The Sensus Divinitatis

180

(3)

First application of the Sensus Divinitatis

183

(8)

Second application of the Sensus Divinitatis

191

(6)

Two questions

197

(4)

More radical still?

201

(4)

Bibliography

205

(4)

Index

209

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