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Written in 1998, Fides et Ratio (Faith and Reason) is Pope John Paul II’s treatment of the relationship between faith and reason. The pope re-iterates the Church’s teaching that faith and reason are not only not in conflict, but are in their essences bound up together. Faith without reason tends toward superstition and reason without faith tends toward nihilism. The pope calls for their...

altius conscii altitudinem sinceritatemque fidei iuvari dum nectitur cum cogitatione dumque eam non recusat. Patrum rursus doctrina in hanc nos persuasionem perducit: « Et ipsum credere, nihil aliud est, quam cum assensione cogitare […] Omnis qui credit, et credendo cogitat, et cogitando credit […] quoniam fide si non cogitatur nulla est ».95 Et etiam: « Si tollatur assensio fides tollitur, quia sine assensione nihil creditur ».96
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