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In The Catholicity of Reason, D. C. Schindler compellingly argues for recovering a robust notion of reason and truth. Responding to modern rationalism and postmodern skepticism, Schindler explains the “grandeur of reason”—the recollection of which Benedict XVI has presented as a primary task of Christian engagement with the contemporary world. Schindler deftly argues that many postmodern...

In his 2006 “Regensburg Address,” Benedict XVI concluded his critique of the form that reason has tended to take in modernity with a charge: “The West has long been endangered by [an] aversion to the questions which underlie its rationality, and can only suffer great harm thereby. The courage to engage the whole breadth of reason, and not the denial of its grandeur—this is the programme with which a theology grounded in Biblical faith enters into the debates of our time.” We might add that
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