phrase: “I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand. For this also I believe—that unless I believed, I should not understand.”9 What is a rationalist? Iain Murray has insightfully noted: The use of the mind is not “rationalism”; it all depends on whether that use is right or wrong. Rationalism is a use of the mind which trusts in its own ability to arrive at truth about God without his aid and apart from revelation: it treats the mind as a source of knowledge
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