We should maintain that if an interpretation of any word in any religion leads to disharmony and does not positively further the welfare of the many, then such an interpretation is to be regarded as wrong; that is, against the will of God, or as the working of Satan or Mara.

Buddhadasa Bikkhu, a Thai Buddhist Monk


Sunday, March 4, 2012

Faith & Reason

"Reason is the precondition of faith; faith is the act in which reason reaches ecstatically beyond itself...reason is not bound to its own finitude.  It is aware of it and, in so doing, rises above it."

Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith (2001 [1957]), p. 87