Can Faith Be Proved

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Can Faith Be Proved?

• Inference to the best explanation
• The Limits of Reason
• The Natural and the Supernatural
• Faith

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Anselm (1033-1109)
Archbishop of Canterbury fides quaerens
intellectum
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Kierkegaard - Father of Existentialism
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The leap of faith

• For Kierkegaard, faith is supra-rational.
• Ultimately, reason has no useful role in relation
  to Christianity.

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Karl Barth and Fideism

• Fideism means faith alone disassociated from
  other epistemological criterion
• Belief cannot argue with unbelief
• God is wholly other - we cannot comprehend Him.

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Rudolf Bultmann - Demythologization

• Three-storied universe cannot be believed by
  modern persons
• Some kernel of truth behind myth
• Adopted existenitalism and espoused belief in
  oneself, commitment to the past, open to the
  future, facing up to the present.

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Can Faith Be Proved?, cont.

• The Tightrope of Faith
• The Framework of Interpretation
• Revelation
• General and Particular
• Propositional and Non Propositional
• Truth Testing