Should Faith Depose Reason?

Father Martindale, in The Faith of the Roman Church, tells us what is the ground of a Catholic’s faith.

“The sentiments (of a Catholic) may account for his fervour in practising his Faith; they may assist him to hold it with a new conviction: but they are not all his reasons for believing that the Church’s dogmas are true, or her commands right.

A Catholic considers that he has cogent reasons for holding that the Roman Church is guaranteed by God to teach him only what is true, and to command him only what is right. He has then but to discover what she teaches and commands, and will proceed to believe the dogmas and obey the commands, not only when he has no feelings about the matter, but when his feelings may be in a perfect tumult of opposition.”

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Author: P. H. Adams

Keywords: Catholic church, roman catholic church, Roman catholic, catholicism, catholic, pope, Council of Nicaea, Nicene Creed, trinity, doctrine of infallibility, Pope is infallible, Coucil of Chalcedon, Constantine, Constantine the great, church council, ex cathedra, pope speaks ex cathedra, faith, reason, blind faith, doctrine of the trinity, trinitarian

Bible reference(s): Mat 15:2-3, Mat 15:6, Mat 15:9, Mark 7:6, Mark 7:13, Col 2:8

Source: “Should Faith Depose Reason?,” The Testimony, Vol. 15, No. 175, July 1945, pp. 137-8.

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