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Illuminating Faith: An Invitation to Theology
Faith in the Bible
A unique notion
The Old Testament
The New Testament
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Personal Faith: St. Augustine
Synthesis
Two kinds of faith
Augustine’s witness
The Bible
Instrumental faith and personal faith
The eyes of faith
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Ecclesial Faith
Personal or collective?
Baptism
Church as witness
Church and the Gospels
The Holy Spirit
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The Limits of Reason 1: The Council of Orange
Religion and philosophy
Christianity claims it is unbelievable without God to help
Augustine versus Pelagius
The Council of Orange (529)
Rejection of dual predestination (to hell and to heaven)
Setting limits to reason
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Thomas Aquinas: Systematic Faith
How theology becomes ‘Scholastic’
The need for faith
Formal object and material object of faith
Theology as a science
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Faith, Hope and Love: The Supernatural Virtues
Virtue
Supernatural virtue
Reformation views
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Faith and the Freedom to Serve: Martin Luther
The good news
Free and bound
Faith and reason
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Faith as Knowledge, Assent and Trust: Protestant Scholasticism
What is Protestant scholasticism?
The Lutheran scholastics
The reformed Scholastics
The aftermath
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Faith and Rebirth: Pietism
Born from above
Pietism
The Puritans
Wesley and Christian perfection
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Faith Ridiculed: Hume’s Bonfire of the Vanities of Christian Rationalism
The wars of faith and reason
Satire
Socinianism
Is the Trinity easily intelligible?
The representative doctrine of perception
David Hume (1711-1776): satirical ‘Catholic atheist’ and champion Yahoo
Two stories
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Pure Religious Faith: Immanuel Kant
A Copernican Turn
Are the old arguments for the existence of God still valid?
Was Kant an atheist?
How can we genuinely believe in God?
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Faith and Feeling: Friedrich Schleiermacher
Romanticism
The Christian Faith
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Faith and the Absolute: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Hegel and the Christian notion of faith
Hegel’s discussion of his contemporaries’ view
Hegel’s notion of faith in his own system
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Faith and Paradox: S0ren Kierkegaard
Foolishness to the Greeks
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The Limits of Reason II: Vatican I
Divi Filius: Church and State
Over the top about faith or reason
Pius IX
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Faith and the Faithfulness of God: Karl Barth
Commentary on Romans
How Barth changed his mind
Faithfulness of god, not human beings
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The Dynamics of Faith: Paul Tillich
Tillich’s place in theology
Approaches to faith
Faith as ultimate concern
Faith as courage to be
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Kenotic Faith: Hans Urs von Balthasar
The trilogy
Faith and philosophy
Theological faith
Seeing the form
The Christ-Form in the body of Christ
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Anonymous Faith: Karl Rahner
Karl Rahner’s place in theology
The paradox of grace
Categorical and transcendental revelation
Implicit and explicit faith
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Faith in Crisis: Death of God, Auschwitz and Militant Atheism
Three developments
secularization
Death of God
Auschwitz
Militant atheism
The rebirth of faith
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Faith and Science: Beyond Reciprocity
Introduction
Faith and science: Varieties of a relationship
The role of faith in science
The role of science in faith
Beyond reciprocity
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Faith and Liberation
The preferential option for the poor
God is black
Faith, sin and the self
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Basic Beliefs: Reformed Epistemology
Foundationalism and philosophy of religion
Calvinism: three reformers
Collapse of classical foundationalism
The evidentialist challenge
What does believing without evidence mean in this context?
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The Phenomenology of Faith:
Thejourney
Comparison with earlier doctrine
Wisdom
Freedom
Light from the cross
Theology and philosophy
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