The Triumph of the Irrational in Postenlightenment Theology
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This essay advances the idea that a dualism between faith and reason has come to characterize the postenlightenment theological enterprise.' This severance of faith and rationality is rooted in philosophical and not biblical modes of thought.2 The result of this dualism is the triumph of the irrational in the interpretation of religious symbols. It would appear that the rigid confinement of faith and reason to autonomous spheres of operation leads to the ascendance of nonhistorical, non~once~tual, nonpsychological, and nonrational interpretations of biblical concepts.)
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