Reason v. Religion
Food for thought from Joshua Abraham Heschel:
The employment of reason is indispensable to the understanding and worship of God, and religion withers without it. The insights of faith are general, vague, and stand in need of conceptualization in order to be communicated to the mind, integrated and brought to consistency. Without reason faith becomes blind. Without reason we would not know how to apply the insights of faith to the concrete issues of living. The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
December 5, 2006
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4 Responses to “Reason v. Religion”
I think this is reasonable.
I know some worshippers that I’ve come across have been down (insert southern colloquial phrase) right “unreasonable.â€
He thinks too much. He’s all whacked out.
Plus, your spinning flower made me dizzy.
What about worship in Spirit and in Truth?
I have to say my attitude toward Heschel is not the best since I had to read a number of his works in Grad school which highly interfered with my “party” agenda.
Peace.
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