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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