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Faith, Reason, and Worldviews

A critical response to William Sweet and Hendrik Hart, Responses to the Enlightenment: An Exchange on Foundations, Faith, and Community (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2012), ISBN: 978-90-420-3447-1, xiv + 294 pp.

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This critical review of Responses to the Enlightenment focuses on the relationship between faith and reason as advanced by Hendrick Hart and William Sweet, respectively. It does so in the context of Enlightenment critique of faith, from which both Hart and Sweet seek to salvage religious faith. While faith as trust is admitted to be performative (Hart), faith is also belief with cognitive content (Sweet). However, faith and reason, as I contend, stand in a dialectical relationship between the need for commitment and understanding at the root of religious as well as secular traditions or worldviews.

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  1. (Lanham MD: University Press of America, 1990).

  2. See Søren Kierkegaard, The Point of View for my Work as an Author in A Kierkegaard Anthology, ed. Robert Bretall (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973), p. 335; and his Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the “Philosophical Fragments,” in ibid, p. 255.

  3. See, for instance, Thorleif Boman, Hebrew Thought Compared with Greek, trans. Jules L. Moreau (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1970) and Martin Buber, Two Types of Faith, A Study of the Interpenetration of Judaism and Christianity, trans. Norman P. Goldhawk (New York: Harper Torchbook, 1961).

  4. James H. Olthuis, ‘On Worldviews,’ in Stained Glass: Worldviews and Social Science, ed. Paul A. Marshall, Sander Griffioen and Richard J. Mouw (Lanham: University Press of America, 1989), p. 2.

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Buijs, J.A. Faith, Reason, and Worldviews. SOPHIA 52, 701–709 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-013-0399-4

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