If there are good reasons to believe, then why does the Christian faith have some really vehement detractors?
That’s the question I look at in this episode.
Glenn Peoples
Episode 049: Why don’t more people believe?
Tag: faith and reason
Episode 047: The battle of the mind – faith and reason
What’s the role of reason in faith?
The podcast is back! This short series consists of talks that I recently gave on a speaking tour, speaking at a church camp in Auckland as well as at Thinking Matters events in Hamilton, Auckland and Tauranga. The theme was Christian apologetics, and this first talk was to set the scene on the general issue of faith and reason.
Episode 047: The battle of the Mind - Faith and Reason [ 43:43 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadI believe because it is absurd – Was Tertullian a fideist?
Tertullian was a Church Father of the late second century. He’s sometimes called the father of Latin Christianity. He is also frequently quoted as a person who thought that reason and faith have little if anything to do with each other. The quote is “I believe because it is absurd.” The suggestion that usually accompanies the quote is that to believe against all reason, to believe things that rational thought tells us are just unreasonable, and to thereby have faith in God, is some sort of virtue that Christianity promotes. Continue reading “I believe because it is absurd – Was Tertullian a fideist?”
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