Faith and Reason: Their Roles in Religious and Secular Life

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INDEX 171 Absolute Idealism, 115, 116, 117 Abraham and Isaac, 112 absurdity of universe and human life, 110–111 acculturation, 49–51 does not entrap us, 49 afterlife, 112 agnosticism, 113 Alexander, Samuel, 116 Altizer, Thomas J. J., 124 animal faith (see faith, animal) Anselm of Canterbury, 141 anxiety, ontological, three types of, 29–30 Aquinas, Thomas, 40–41, 141 Aristotle, 40, 56 Augustine of Hippo, 19–20 Ayer, A. J., 99, 161 Baier, Kurt, 162 Barfield, Owen, 116 Barth, Karl, 134 being-itself, power of, 29, 126 Berkeley, George, 117 Berry, Thomas, 131, 144, 152, 155, 162 Bible historical criticism of, 109, 134–35 literalistic interpretation of, 109 symbolic interpretation of, 138 Brightman, Edgar Sheffield, 142 Brunner, Emil, 134 Bub, Jeffrey, 157 Buddhism, 15, 27 Bodhisattva ideal of, 89 Mahayana, and Christianity, 32 Theravada, 149 Zen, 33 Bushnell, Horace, 137–39 Byrd, Richard E., 151–52, 162 Calvin, John, 135 Camus, Albert, 122, 123 Caputo, John D., 1, 23–24 Carson, Rachel, 154 caste system of India, 89–90 Centre College of Kentucky, 139 Christianity, 15, 23, 32, 38, 39, 40, 88–89, 91, 158 and author of this book, 131–44 and Bart Ehrman, 112–15 and C. S. Lewis, 118–20 historicity of, 118 and Judaism, 127 and Mahayana Buddhism, 32 and Q, Book of, 39 Cobb, John B., 32 Coetze, J. M., 71 Columbia University, 137 Communism, Soviet, 18–19 Confucianism, 15, 149 conversion, 50–51, 111, 114, 115, 119, 128 convictional openness, 8 Corrington, Robert, 161, 162 Cox, Harvey, 158 Crick, Francis, 72 Crosby, Pamela, xi, 145 Cupitt, Don, 21 Damasio, Antonio R., 160 Dante Alighieri, 161 Davidson College, 134 Dawkins, Richard, 41 172 INDEX death camps (see suffering, problem of, in Nazi death camps) Death of God theologians, 124–26 Descartes, René, 162 despair, 110 determinism, causal, 59–60, 75, 101, 104, 157 Dirac, Paul, 10, 71 Dombrowski, Daniel, 26, 34 Doubt (see Faith, and doubt) Dunlap, Thomas R., 38 Dupré, Louis, 17, 52, 91 Ecclesiastes, Book of, 113 Ehrman, Bart, 107, 112–15, 119–20, 129, 130, 143, 154 Einstein, Albert, 11, 75, 157 Elster, Jon, 20 eliminative materialism, 98 environmentalism and faith (see faith, and environmentalism) and symbols, 38 epiphenomenalism, 98 Euripides, 116 evil, problem of (see suffering, problem of) Existentialist philosophies, 123–24 faith absolute, 29 and acculturation, 49–51 animal, 44–46, 108, 158 based partly but not wholly on reason, 4, 5, 7, 9, 95 not just belief, 5–7, 14, 62–63, 86, 158 not blind credulity, 4, 63 broader than religion, 2 centered act of the total person, 5, 20–21, 24, 64, 71, 83, 95–97, 118, 119 collapse or loss of, 30, 107–111 and courage, 26–31, 126 degrees of, 34 and devotion, 19–21 and disagreements, 59–60 discovered, not just created, 21 and doubt, 19, 21, 31–35, 107, 109, 114–15, 132–33, 155 emotional side of, 129 and encounters with other faiths, 8, 32, 35, 94, 110, 132, 155 environmental, 153 and environmentalism, 38 exclusivistic view of, 110 existential, 1, 5, 7, 11, 21, 43, 44, 53, 55, 65, 71, 73, 75–76, 83, 93–96, 103, 105 and external authorities, 128–29 and hope, 22–26, 128 not immune to criticism, 129 importance of, 130 indispensable to life, 2, 108 and intrinsic value of persons, 88–90 knowledge aspect of, 37–42, 52–53 leap of, 28 materialistic, 115–16 many different kinds of, 2 misconceptions of, ix–x and morality, 9, 79–92, 160 can be perverse, 90, 155 radical revision of, 120–28 reasonable, v, xi, 3, 7, 8, 9, 11, 77, 97, 111 not reducible to morality, 92 religious, 1, 64, 79–80, 85, 92, 94 not necessarily religious (see faith, secular) and response to things not under our control, 80–83 risks of, 28–29, 30 and science, 9–11, 61–78 and scientism, 98–105 secular, x, 1, 15, 19, 24, 65, 85, 92, 93–105, 127, 129, 155, 159, 160 and secular humanism, 94–98 and social and political interactions, 10, 156 not static or fixed, 21, 35, 82, 107, 128, 131–32 173 INDEX and symbols, 16–17, 32–34, 37–42, 85, 124–128, 138–39 and tacit cognitive confidence, 44 tacit dimension of, 65 and trust, 17–19 and worldviews, 13–17, 26, 34–35, 39 faithful reason, x, xi, 3, 9, 10, 11, 43, 64, 77, 84...