Faith, Reason and the Existence of God
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 18, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521602563
Subjects: Philosophy of religion; Proof, Ontological; Theology - Apologetics; Religion; Christian Theology - Apologetics; Religion / Christianity; God; Christianity - General
First sentence: Within theological circles in our times there can scarcely be a proposition less likely to meet with approval than that which, on 24 April 1870, the first Vatican Council decreed to be a matter of faith, to be upheld by all Christians, namely: that God, the source and end of all things, can be known with certainty from the consideration of created things, by the natural power of human reason: ever since the creation of the world, his invisible nature has been clearly perceived in the things which have been made [Rm 1, 20].