Part I: Five Keynote Addresses
Chapter One: Douglas Kries, “Catholic Reflections on Reason and Faith after Five Hundred Years of Reform and Enlightenment”
Chapter Two: Jennifer Hockenberry Dragseth, “Sola Fide: What Happens to Reason When we are Justified by Faith Alone?”
Chapter Three: John Baxter, “The Grammar of Faith in Twelfth Night: Richard Hooker’s Gift to Shakespeare”
Chapter Four: Albert Wolters, “Reason and the Paradigm of the Nature-grace Relationship”
Chapter Five: Christina Bieber Lake, “An English Major’s Theology? The Incarnation as Answer to the Question of the Relationship Between Faith and Reason”
Part II: Seven Studies on Core Treatises from the Medieval to Modern Periods
(in historical order of the primary text examined)
A. Medieval Alternatives
Chapter Six: Terence J. Kleven, “And Ye Shall be as Rulers, having Opinions about Good and Evil” (Gen. 3:5b)–Maimonides on the ‘Fall’ in Genesis 3 in the Guide of the Perplexed”
Chapter Seven: Elisa Torres, “The Ills of Man Writ Large: Hythloday’s Diagnosis and Solution in Thomas More’s Utopia”
B. The Reformation Argument
Chapter Eight: Judson Marvel, “The Impotency of Reason in Calvin’s Account of Natural Law and Natural Reason”
C. The New Science and Christian Theology
Chapter Nine: Scott Culpepper, “Faith and Reason Behind the Throne: Francis Bacon’s Integral Correlation of Religious Conviction and Inductive Curiosity”
D. Science and Faith in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter Ten: James Ungureanu, “The “New Reformation” of Victorian Scientific Naturalism”
E. Contemporary Reflections on Faith, Politics and Education
Chapter Eleven: David Timmer, “Prodigal Ratio: The Autonomy of Reason and its Homecoming to Faith in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Ethics”
Chapter Twelve: Stephen Holtrop, “Teaching Christianly: Competing Christian Perspectives on the Student, Teacher, Curriculum, Purpose of Education, Calling and Truth”