WE SHOULDN'T, BUT WE ALL DO:

Why Should Anyone Believe Anything At All (James Sire, UC Santa Barbara, 1998, Veritas)

Dr. Sire begins his talk by asserting that the mechanism of belief is inescapable in life. In addition, the question of why we believe what we do has been of ultimate importance for all people, at all times, and in all places. Arguing that we must learn to make the fine distinction between reasons to believe and causes of belief, Dr. Sire examines the social, psychological, genetic, and religious theories of belief by employing this distinction to each category. Finally, Dr. Sire argues that what one believes must cohere to reality, and he offers several arguments that the Christian faith is a system of belief that does just this.

The Rationalists are made tolerable by the amusement value in their inability to deal with the end results of Reason.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 11, 2007 6:33 AM