In The Catholicity of Reason, D. C. Schindler compellingly argues for recovering a robust notion of reason and truth. Responding to modern rationalism and postmodern skepticism, Schindler explains the “grandeur of reason”—the recollection of which Benedict XVI has presented as a primary task of Christian engagement with the contemporary world.
Schindler deftly argues that many postmodern thinkers—religious and secular alike—have responded to the arrogance of earlier Western thought with relativistic humility, critiquing these kinds of claims to knowledge as presumptuous. However, Schindler believes that only a robust confidence in reason allows us to remain genuinely humble in light of God and the great mysteries of existence. Drawing from contemporary and classical theologians and philosophers alike, Schindler explores basic philosophical questions of truth, knowledge, and being. Schindler proposes a new model for thinking about the relationship between faith and reason, bringing forth a dramatic conception of human knowing that both strengthens our trust in reason, and opens our minds in faith.
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