Christian thought starts from faith in a personal, creating and loving God, revealed in Jesus Christ, and asks what this means for reason and for life. How can the existence of evil be reconciled with divine goodness? What is the dignity of the person? What roles do grace and freedom play? Its authors hold that faith does not cancel thinking but gives it a horizon and a moral demand.
It has accompanied Christianity from the start, but this group brings together modern voices. John Calvin, in the sixteenth century, was a leader of the Protestant Reformation. Pascal, in the seventeenth, wrote of the reasons of the heart. John Henry Newman, in the nineteenth, reflected on conscience and the development of doctrine. In the twentieth century G. K. Chesterton and C. S. Lewis defended faith with humor and argument, Simone Weil wrote on attention and suffering, and Gabriela Mistral joined faith, poetry and social commitment.
Core ideas
Faith and reason complete each other in the search for truth
Every person has dignity as a creature of God
Love of neighbor is the heart of moral life
Where to start reading
Each thinker's starter book, picked for beginners.
