Abstract
In recent years there has been a renewed focus on the relationship between faith and reason. This resurgence has been largely sparked by Charles Taylor’s tome, <em>A Secular Age </em>(2007), and the fascinating exchange between Joseph Ratzinger and Jürgen Habermas (2007) on the pre-political foundations of society. <em>Christianity and Secular Reason </em>(2012) builds on these two works to explore the relationship between faith and reason; in particular secular reason. As the editor, Jeffrey Bloechl, explains, the volume “attends to the relation between Christianity and secular reason at points where each seems to contest the self-assurance of the other” and at another level it also illustrates that secular reason “is deeply troubling to both Christian thought and the philosophy often called ‘continental’.”
Highlights
Christianity and Secular Reason is a collection of chapters exploring a variety of areas within the relationship between faith and reason
Swindal places two caveats on the views expressed by Ratzinger and Habermas because they prioritise a cognitive solution to the relationship between secular and religious order, and adopt a functionalist account of religion and reason which Swindal is opposed to
Lawrence usefully explores Habermas’ ideas on the power of secular reason within democracy and contrasts this to Ratzinger’s own views, as supplemented by Bernard Lonergan, that transcendent goods are important in the democratic sphere
Summary
Christianity and Secular Reason is a collection of chapters (formerly papers) exploring a variety of areas within the relationship between faith and reason. * High Court of New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand thomas.cleary@hotmail.co.nz relationship between faith and secular reason. These are thought provoking chapters that address how we construct the paradigms of faith and reason and what might lie beyond such boundaries.
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