Truth, Faith, and Reason

John Paul II''s Faith and Reason was written against a background of Catholic scholarship focusing notably on the New Testament, St. Augustine''s Confessions, St. Thomas''s De Veritate, and the encyclicals of various pre-Vatican II popes. A detailed, textually based critique of these early sources reveals inconsistencies and conceptual errors that are shown to carry over into Faith and Reason. Joh...