Marvin has another post on the “faith and/versus reason” theme.

One thing I’d want to add to the mix–in partial agreement with a comment Eric made at Marvin’s–is that there is a variety of understandings of “reason,” only some of which are inimical to faith.

For instance, a lot of debates about faith and reason seem to employ a rather dessicated, positivist notion of reason that is more characteristic of the 19th and early 20th centuries than the high tide of Enlightenment, not to mention pre-modern notions of reason (Platonist, e.g.). Most philosophers have long abandoned such notions, which seemed to exclude God or the transcendent pretty much by definition.