Budziszewski: I wish you had not put it that way! Too many people think that acknowledging the claims of reason means denying the claims of revelation. I do not see it that way at all. Think of the matter like this. God has made some things known to all human beings; these are general revelation. He has also made additional things known to the community of faith; these are special revelation. Natural law is about general revelation, not special revelation. However, a Christian natural-law thinker will make use of special revelation to illuminate general revelation—and will use God-given reasoning powers to understand them both.
YES! YES! YES! This is what my priest always says about the differences between Protestants, Roman Catholics and Anglican Catholics, how it is like a three legged stool :
Protestant : one leg, FAITH
Roman Catholic : two leg, FAITH and TRADITION
Anglican Catholic : three leg, FAITH, TRADITION, and REASON
I am forever amazed that within the Christian community there is this automatic assumption that God does not exist within reason, that the heart can never meet with the brain.
Thank you for posting this!
In his 1998 encyclical “Faith and Reason” JP2 affirms the (Roman) Church’s relationship with reason:
“The Church remains profoundly convinced that faith and reason "mutually support each other"; (122) each influences the other, as they offer to each other a purifying critique and a stimulus to pursue the search for deeper understanding.”
He admits the relationship between faith and reason had strayed, and hence the encyclical to encourage theologians, priests, teachers and scientists to rekindle and encourage the study of philosophy with theology.
Oh, please!!! Thomas Aquinas was an Anglican?