January 12, 2007
Reason, Unfettered by Faith
The Harvard University faculty and Pope Benedict XVI might be considered unlikely intellectual allies, but both have recently promoted an odd — and, I would suggest, oxymoronic — connection between reason and faith in the context of the university. That has already caused problems for both the pope and Harvard.
In a speech at the University of Regensburg, where he once taught, the pope emphasized the role of theology in correlating faith with reason. He argued
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