For centuries, Christians have posed the dilemma of Christian theology as a problem of faith v. reason. That’s a non-starter, a concession of defeat, for it assumes that there can be such a thing as a faith-free rationality. But there cannot be.
What we have is not a conflict of faith and reason, but a conflict of various faith-reasons or reason-faiths.
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