CHAPTER 2 Faith & Reason In a sense the marriage of faith and reason is the most important question in apologetics because it is the overall question. If faith and reason are not wedded partners, if faith and reason are divorced or incompatible, like cats and birds, then apologetics is impossible. For apologetics is the attempt to ally reason to faith, to defend faith with reason’s weapons. Definitions It is especially crucial to clarify our definitions of faith and reason, because these terms are