Events Tagged: "reason"

Aquinas writes Summa Contra Gentiles - proving God's existence through reason alone

St. Thomas More writing Utopia - attempting to show reason can grasp natural law - Two years before Luther - defending Aquinas's synthesis - 'The times are never so bad but that a good man can live in them'

Pascal's 'Pensées' Published Posthumously - Last major defense of Christianity using reason - 'The heart has reasons that reason knows not' - Famous wager: Bet on God existing

Pope John Paul II issues 'Fides et Ratio' on faith and reason - 'Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth'