Paul Helm is Professor of History and Philosophy of Religion at King's College, London.
Summary
Faith and Reason displays in historical perspective some of the rich dialogue between religion and philosophy
over two millennia, beginning with Greek reflections about God and the gods and ending with twentieth-century debates
about faith. Paul Helm uses as a case study the question of whether the world is eternal or whether it was created
out of nothing, following this theme from Plato through medieval thought to modern scientific speculation about
the beginnings of the universe. This Oxford Reader also covers many other fundamental issues raised by the juxtaposition
of faith and reason.
Table of Contents
I. The Classical Background (12 extracts)
II. The Interaction of Judeo-Christianity and the Classical World (14 extracts)
III. The Medieval Period (14 extracts)
IV. Renaissance and Reformation (13 extracts)
V. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (14 extracts)
VI. The Nineteenth Century (13 extracts)
VII. The Twentieth Century: Faith and Hard Science (9 extracts)
VIII: The Twentieth Century: Faith, Realism, and Pluralism (15 extracts)
IX: The Twentieth Century: Reason and Belief in God (12 extracts).
