By Robert Sokolowski

How is it that Christian religion will be acknowledged to be in keeping with cause and even as to go beyond cause? at the one hand, the concordance of religion with cause appears to be like to minimize religion to rational considering and to normal human event; however, the variation among religion and cause turns out to make trust unreasonable and arbitrary.

In The God of religion and Reason, Robert Sokolowski treats this theological hassle now not via conversing at once approximately religion and cause, yet via an exam of the Christian knowing of God that makes a speciality of God the author and the area as created. In so doing, he demonstrates how the Christian idea of God preserves either the integrity of cause and the individuality of religion.

Sokolowski starts with a press release of the Christian realizing of God built in phrases supplied by means of St. Anselm, in whose writings the difficulty of religion and cause surfaces in an traditionally major method. He subsequent brings to gentle the certain personality of the Christian realizing of God through contrasting it with the pagan figuring out of the divine. whereas pagan and different average religions see god because the strongest a part of the realm, Christianity knows God to be become independent from the realm, no longer additional to in any respect via the act of constructing it. This knowing of God and the realm lies in the back of the assumption in construction, and is proven to supply the context for the opposite Christian mysteries, akin to the Incarnation, Redemption, the Church, grace, and the sacraments, particularly the Eucharist. the writer additionally indicates how the Christian knowing of God and the realm is helping make clear the variation among typical human virtues and the theological virtues of religion, wish, and charity. In an appendix, he bargains with the connection among political philosophy and Christian revelation, and, via a dialogue of the guidelines of Leo Strauss, speaks of where of politics and political cause in Christian trust. through the e-book Sokolowski employs a style of theology in keeping with phenomenology to be able to express how the issues of Christian religion differentiate themselves from the phenomena given to traditional experience.

With its insightful, user-friendly arguments, The God of religion and Reason is perfect to be used in either introductory and complicated classes in common theology, primary theology, Christian philosophy, philosophy of God, philosophy of faith, and metaphysics.

Robert Sokolowski, a clergyman of the Archdiocese of Hartford, has taught philosophy on the Catholic college of the USA seeing that 1963. He has written six books and various articles facing phenomenology, philosophy and Christian religion, ethical philosophy, and concerns in modern technological know-how. He has been an auxiliary chaplain at Bolling Air strength Base in Washington, D.C., on account that 1976 and used to be named monsignor in 1993.

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"Robert Sokolowski, already an finished writer within the box of philosophy, has now written a worldly and profound little e-book concerning the frontiers the place philosophy and theology, common cause and Christian religion, overlap and mix right into a unmarried harmonious act, whose parts may be differentiated through reflective pondering. . . . This booklet will supply beneficial clarifications to theologians, philosophers and believers, confident in precept that non secular religion will be average . . . yet uncertain as to how religion and cause might be mixed with out collapsing one into the other."―International magazine for Philosophy of Religion

The easy goal of this profound and disquieting paintings is to spot what's such a lot greatly distinct approximately Christian trust. Addressed to a nontechnical viewers . . . the publication possesses the type of lucidity and highbrow simplicity accomplished simply via lecturers of the top order. Its conclusi