No.42 Referenced from ~ Part2 - Chapter 1 - Section 1

What describes what?

Given that Kant spoke of reason in terms of reason, Troeltsch spoke of faith in terms of reason, and Barth spoke of faith in terms of faith, perhaps we should not be surprised that there are those who try to speak of reason in terms of faith. H. Dooyeweerd, a 20th century Christian philosopher, is such a type.

Thirty years ago when I was in seminary, a student from another seminary, which was located nearby at the time, came over to me as I was resting on the lawn and gave me a "lecture" on the Christian philosophy of Dooyeweerd, which we had just learned about in the morning class. He knew that I was interested in such things.

He presented the knowledge he had just acquired, so that I ended up spending most of my lunch break on "The pretended autonomy of philosophical thought in the paganish basis motives," but what I felt at the time was something like a sense of discomfort with the theory, that "this is not what I want to know about faith and reason." At the same time, I felt that I had not yet grasped the true nature of this discomfort.