http://gcummins.com/philosophy/2010/02/no-thinking-allowed/ Challenging your worldview Fri, 29 Oct 2010 02:24:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://gcummins.com/philosophy/2010/02/no-thinking-allowed/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Nunya Sat, 02 Oct 2010 02:12:18 +0000 http://gcummins.com/philosophy/?p=60#comment-23 Many modern Christians shame the healthy heritage of intellectual giants such as Aquinas, Descartes, Augustine, Lewis, etc... You don't have to be able to prove your faith for it to be valid (if you could fully prove it it would then cease to be faith), but you must be able to defend, justify, and reconcile it or it becomes blind dogmatic orthodoxy. Many modern Christians shame the healthy heritage of intellectual giants such as Aquinas, Descartes, Augustine, Lewis, etc…
You don’t have to be able to prove your faith for it to be valid (if you could fully prove it it would then cease to be faith), but you must be able to defend, justify, and reconcile it or it becomes blind dogmatic orthodoxy.

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