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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...

verum stat etiam in vivificanti consuetudine deditionis et fidelitatis erga alterum. Hac in fidelitate, cuius vi homo se dedere novit, plenam invenit certitudinem et animi firmitatem. Eodem tamen tempore, cognitio per fiduciam, quae existimatione interpersonali nititur, non datur quin ad veritatem referatur: homo, credendo, veritati quam alter ostendit committitur. Quot exempla proferri possunt ad illustranda quae diximus! Cogitatio autem Nostra statim vertitur ad martyrum testimonium. Martyr, enim,