Reason and Faith: Philosophy in the Middle Ages
(By Thomas Williams)
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Taught by Thomas Williams of University of South Florida, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Are philosophy and religionreason and faithfundamentally at odds? From today's strict division between questions of logic and questions of belief, one might think so. But for 1,000 years during a pivotal era of Western thought, reason and faith went hand-in-hand in the search for answers to the most profound issues investigated by Christianity's most committed scholars:
* Can God's existence and attributes be established by reason alone?
* Are there Christian doctrines that are beyond the scope of logical demonstration?
* How can Christian beliefs be defended against objections and made internally consistent?
These questions posed by the great philosophers of the Middle Ages bear no resemblance to the stereotypical medieval dispute about how many angels can dance on the head of a pina problem that apparently no one in the Middle Ages discussed. Instead, they are emblematic of an extraordinarily rich period of intellectual ferment, when the best minds of the age participated in a common struggle with transcendent questions, using reasoning in the service of faith.”
