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title	:	The God of Faith and Reason : Foundations of Christian Theology
author	:	Sokolowski, Robert.
publisher	:	Catholic University of America Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0813208270
print isbn13	:	9780813208275
ebook isbn13	:	9780813210452
language	:	English
subject	Christianity--Philosophy, Theology, Faith and reason--Christianity.
publication date	:	1995
lcc	:	BR100.S57 1995eb
ddc	:	231/.042
subject	:	Christianity--Philosophy, Theology, Faith and reason--Christianity.

Page iii The God of Faith and Reason Foundations of Christian Theology Robert Sokolowski with a new preface

Page iv Copyright 1982, 1995 The Catholic University of America Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standards for Information Science Permanence of Paper for Printed Library materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sokolowski, Robert The God of faith and reason : foundations of Christian theology / by Robert Sokolowski ; with a new preface. p. cm. Originally published : Notre Dame : Univ. of Notre Dame, C1982. With new pref. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Christianity Philosophy. 2. Theology. 3. Faith and reason Christianity. I, Title. BR100.S57 1995 231'.042 dc20 94-45188 ISBN 0-8132-0827-0 (alk. paper)

Page v To Francis Slade

Page vi Nam in quem locum quisque ceciderit, ibi debet incumbere, ut surgat. For on whatever place one has fallen, on that place he must find support that he may rise again. ST. AUGUSTINE, De vera religione, XXIV, 45.

Page vii Contents Preface to This Edition ix Preface to the Original Edition xiii 1. Beginning with St. Anselm 1 2. Pagan Divinity 12 3. Voices Expressing the Christian Distinction 21 4. The Incarnation and the Christian Distinction 31 5. The Metaphysics of Christian Belief 41 6. Natural Virtue 53 7. Theological Virtue 69 8. The Theology of Disclosure 88 9. That Truly God Exists 104 10. Reading the Scriptures 119 11. Christian Experience 133 12. Sacramental Life 144 Appendices 155 Index 165

Page ix Preface to This Edition The response to this book after its first printing some twelve years ago showed that the issue most in need of clarification was what I call the theology of disclosure, the method followed by the book. The theology of disclosure is a speculative form of theological reflection inspired by phenomenology. One could call it "phenomenological theology," but this term is clumsy in English. Phenomenology reflects on the appearance of things, but it takes such appearances as generally valid and true, as manifestations of the things presented in them. It does not begin, as so much modern thinking does, with a skeptical bias against appearances. Phenomenology then describes the appearances that are proper to various kinds of things: perceived material objects, other persons, the past and future, pictures, written words. Each kind of thing, each "region of being," as Husserl calls it, has its own manner of being disclosed. Phenomenology tries to bring out the various structures of appearance and the necessities that are found in them. The theology of disclosure, correspondingly, tries to bring out the structure of manifestation that is proper to Christian "things," and most centrally it tries to bring out the structure of disclosure proper to the Christian God, the God of faith and reason. This God, who reveals himself as the hidden God, is presented by being distinguished from the divinities that have been recognized, and continue to assert themselves, in the pagan" world. The biblical, and specifically the Christian,

Page x God is presented in contrast with whatever is thought or revered as ultimate within the world of natural experience. These "gods" are shown to be false gods once the Word of God has been spoken to us.

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