A round up of Muslim bloggers’ responses to Pope Benedict’s speech (via Fr. Jim Tucker).

The pope’s address is well worth reading quite apart from the ensuing brouhaha. Of particular interest to me is his association of a voluntarist view of the divine nature and various programs of “de-Hellenization” with certain forms of Protestantism. Luther and Calvin have certainly been grouped under a voluntarist label, though there are clearly strains in Protestantism that have a more positive view of the role of reason and Christianity’s Greek inheritance (Hooker, perhaps?).

Also worth noting is Benedict’s call, not for repudiating the Enlightenment, but for recovering a more robust view of reason that goes beyond a verificationist epistemology that leads to a scientistic reductionism in our metaphysics.