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Illuminating Faith : An Invitation to Theology by Francesca Aran Murphy, Balázs M. Mezei and Kenneth Oakes is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This textbook will give students a clear understanding of the connection between faith and reason. Illuminating Faith gives students a clear and accessible introduction to some of the major ways faith and the relationship between faith and reason have been understood within Western Christianity. In twenty-six short and easy to digest units it covers different accounts of faith beginning with Scripture, moving through the history of Christian thought, and ending with contemporary views. Along the way it explores some of the decisive theological and philosophy accounts of faith, such as faith seeking understanding, faith and supernatural virtue, faith and skepticism, and faith and science. Yet it also includes significant issues and movements not typically covered in introductory texts, such as documents from church councils, faith as knowledge, assent, and trust in the Protestant scholastics, faith and the heart in pietism, secularized accounts of faith, faith after Auschwitz, and faith and liberation. The goal of each unit is to introduce students to topical issues surrounding the nature of faith, to provide historical background for each topic, and to generate further discussion a

Who reads Illuminating Faith : An Invitation to Theology?

Author

Francesca Aran Murphy, Balázs M. Mezei and Kenneth Oakes

Publisher

Bloomsbury T & T Clark

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780567656063

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Christian, History, Religion