Where did I find you in order to make your acquaintance in the first place? You could not have been in my memory before I learned to know you. Where then could I have found you in order to learn of you, if not in yourself, far above me? “Place” has here no meaning: further away from you or toward you we may travel, but place there is none. O Truth, you hold sovereign sway over all who turn to you for counsel, and to all of them you respond at the same time, however diverse their pleas.
Clear is your response, but not all hear it clearly. They all appeal to you about what they want, but do not always hear what they want to hear. Your best servant is the one who is less intent on hearing from you what accords with his own will, and more on embracing with his will what he has heard from you. -- St Augustine, Confessions
This unit is about reason and faith. Some of it will be review since those were the topics of the last few lessons. Here are some of the questions that are raised in this unit. Some of them you can probably already answer.
- What is reason?
- Can you reason to the existence of God?
- Can you reason towards some truths about God?
- Is reason always reliable?
- What is Faith?
- How did the saints practice faith?
- Is faith superior to reason?
- What are some qualities of faith?
- What virtues accompany faith?
- Is faith necessary to salvation?
- Who were some great teachers and champions of our faith?
- How is faith lost?
- How is faith endangered?
- How is faith increased?
- How is faith transmitted?
- How does the Church teach?
- How does the Bible teach?
- How does Tradition teach?
- How is faith spread?
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