Posts Tagged ‘ Faith ’

Hope and Unity

Feb 8th, 2011 | By | Category: Blog Posts

God the Son, taking our lowly form and walking among us, left us many imperatives which require faith first, but also hope. Believe in Me, He said, but also hope. Faith causes hope and hope, like faith, is a theological virtue. To follow through with an imperative requires faith in the imperator which precedes the […]



Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas: the Mystery of God and the Mystery of the Eucharist

Jan 28th, 2011 | By | Category: Blog Posts

Today, January 28th, is the feast day of one of the Church’s greatest theologians, Thomas Aquinas (c.1224-1274). For his penetrating syntheses of faith and reason, nature and grace, and speculative, practical and spiritual theology, he is known as the doctor communis, the Common Doctor among the bright and God-consumed minds of the Catholic tradition.



Desperately Seeking Certainty, or the Obedience of Faith?

Dec 31st, 2010 | By | Category: Blog Posts

Catholics claim that when Jesus Christ established his Church, he permanently endowed her with a Magisterium that can teach infallibly on matters of faith and morals. Protestants deny this claim, appealing instead to the sole infallible authority of Sacred Scripture. Catholics respond to the principle of sola scriptura in various ways, including the claim that apart […]



Faith and Reason in the Context of Conversion

Jul 26th, 2010 | By | Category: Blog Posts

The following is a guest post written by Devin Rose.  Devin is a 32-year-old software engineer and lay apologist who blogs at St. Joseph’s Vanguard. He and his wife, Katie, live in Austin with their four children. After years as a devout atheist, I converted to Evangelical Protestantism in February of 2000 and was baptized […]



St. Thomas Aquinas on the Relation of Faith to the Church

Feb 13th, 2010 | By | Category: Blog Posts

In the second part of the second part of his Summa Theologiae, St. Thomas Aquinas explains the seven virtues: the three theological virtues (i.e. faith, hope, and love), and the four cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance). In his section on the virtue of faith, St. Thomas says something quite shocking to modern ears.



Episode 4 – Faith & Reason

May 17th, 2009 | By | Category: Podcast

In this episode, Bryan Cross & Tim Troutman discuss the relationship between faith and reason and how to strike a balance between fideism and rationalism. CTC Podcast Episode 4 Faith and Reason To download the mp3, right click here.