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About the Show

Faith and Reason Fridays

"Faith and Reason Free-for-all Bother-Father Facebookish Fridays."

We are calling all Catholics to see how the world looks through the eyes of faith.

Blind faith (a.k.a. "fideism") is a vice, not a virtue.

Faith is a vision of reality granted to us by God-revealing-God.

Everything looks different when we see the world from the perspective of the faith.

We have good reasons for what we believe.

The goal is to think faithfully and believe intelligently so that we may:

  • Preach Jesus faithfully.
  • Love our neighbor as Jesus has loved us.

I intend to believe what the Church teaches and teach what the Church believes.

We are on an open party line.
Despite the title of the show, we very much welcome calls and correspondence from our non-Catholic brothers and sisters in the Lord, as well as from agnostics, atheists, and non-Christians.
"Catholic Conference Call"
"Catholic Conversation"
"Answer Priest"
Food for thought--"Catholic soul food."
St. Augustine said, "Our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee." Our minds are hungry until they feed on truth. We sink our teeth into the mysteries of the faith and ruminate on them.
"Pasta primavera."

Scripture

Think to thank.
G. K. Chesterton called thanks "the highest form of thought" (The Universe According to G. K. Chesterton, p. 112). The better we understand God's hidden and mysterious plan of salvation, hidden from all ages, but now revealed in Christ, the better we can thank and praise God for the "wonders of His love."
Eph 3:9-10

8 To me, the very least of all the holy ones, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the inscrutable riches of Christ,

9 and to bring to light [for all] what is the plan of the mystery hidden from ages past in God who created all things,

10 so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the principalities and authorities in the heavens.

We are supposed to love God with our minds.
"You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your being, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself" (Lk 10:27).
God calls us to grow up.
"When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things" (1 Cor 13:11).
Change of mind accompanies change of heart.
"Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect" (Rom 12:2).
We are called "think in harmony with one another."
"May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to think in harmony with one another, in keeping with Christ Jesus, that with one accord you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ" (Rom 15:5-6).
We should be able to provide the reasons for our belief.
God created us as intelligent beings. Our powers of the intellect are part of being in the "image and likeness" of God (Gen 1:27-18). God is not offended by our thinking about what and why we believe. On the contrary, Peter tells us we should "always be ready to give an explanation [Greek: apologos] to anyone who asks you for a reason [Greek: logos--word, logic, reason, principle] for your hope" (1 Pet 3:15).
We need "eyes to see and ears to hear."
Amor dat oculos.

Tradition

Faith 'n' Reason Fridays have the same goal as that of Vatican II: "To strive calmly to show the strength and beauty of the doctrine of the faith" (John Paul II, "Fidei Depositum").

Philosophy

Teaching faith to think and reason to believe is the task of systematic theology. St. Thomas Aquinas set the pattern for the union of faith and reason in the 13th century (1225-1274 AD). In his view, a sound philosophy is the handmaid of theology, just as today mathematics is the handmaid of science. Philosophy is not theology, nor is mathematics physics, but it is impossible to do theology without a philosophy or to do physics without mathematics. If the philosophical assumptions used in theological reasoning are unsound, the theology will be unsound.

Pascal
"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapor, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But, if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him, the universe knows nothing of this. All our dignity then, consists in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill. Let us endeavor then, to think well; this is the principle of morality."
John Henry Newman

The heart is the seat of wisdom. It is our heart that keeps our minds on track. Another name for the show (Newman's motto): "Cor ad cor loquitur"--"Heart to Heart." Or "Heart of Wisdom."

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