which does not rest on any faith commitment. It denies the truth of Augustine’s slogan, “I believe in order to know.” I have already argued that this setting of reason against faith is absurd. Reason is not an independent means for finding out what is the case. It is not a substitute for information. In order to be informed, we have to make acts of trust in the traditions we have inherited and in the evidence of our senses. Moreover, as has already been said, all systematic reasoning has to begin