Illuminating Faith: An Invitation to Theology - Illuminating Faith: An Invitation to Theology -

Faith in the Bible A unique notion The Old Testament The New Testament Study questions Further reading Personal Faith: St. Augustine Synthesis Two kinds of faith Augustine’s witness The Bible Instrumental faith and personal faith The eyes of faith Study questions Further reading Ecclesial Faith Personal or collective?Baptism Church as witness Church and the Gospels The Holy Spirit Study questions Further reading 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 Study questions Further reading Thomas Aquinas: Systematic Faith How theology becomes ‘Scholastic’The need for faith Formal object and material object of faith Theology as a science Study questions Further reading Faith, Hope and Love: The Supernatural Virtues Virtue Supernatural virtue Reformation views Study questions Further reading Faith and the Freedom to Serve: Martin Luther The good news Free and bound Faith and reason Study questions Further reading Faith as Knowledge, Assent and Trust: Protestant Scholasticism What is Protestant scholasticism?The Lutheran scholastics The reformed Scholastics The aftermath Study questions Further reading Faith and Rebirth: Pietism Born from above Pietism The Puritans Wesley and Christian perfection Study questions Further reading 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 Study questions Further reading 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?Study questions Further reading Faith and Feeling: Friedrich Schleiermacher Romanticism The Christian Faith Study questions Further reading 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 Study questions Further reading Faith and Paradox: S0ren Kierkegaard Foolishness to the Greeks Study questions Further reading The Limits of Reason II: Vatican I Divi Filius: Church and State Over the top about faith or reason Pius IX Study questions Further reading Faith and the Faithfulness of God: Karl Barth Commentary on Romans How Barth changed his mind Faithfulness of god, not human beings Study questions Further reading The Dynamics of Faith: Paul Tillich Tillich’s place in theology Approaches to faith Faith as ultimate concern Faith as courage to be Study questions Further reading Kenotic Faith: Hans Urs von Balthasar The trilogy Faith and philosophy Theological faith Seeing the form The Christ-Form in the body of Christ Study questions Further reading Anonymous Faith: Karl Rahner Karl Rahner’s place in theology The paradox of grace Categorical and transcendental revelation Implicit and explicit faith Study questions Further reading Faith in Crisis: Death of God, Auschwitz and Militant Atheism Three developments secularization Death of God Auschwitz Militant atheism The rebirth of faith Study questions Further Reading 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 Study questions Further reading Faith and Liberation The preferential option for the poor God is black Faith, sin and the self Study questions Further readings 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?study questions Further reading The Phenomenology of Faith:Thejourney Comparison with earlier doctrine Wisdom Freedom Light from the cross Theology and philosophy Study questions Further reading