of reckless faith are clearly in evidence. The charismatic movement, for example, tends toward the first extreme; Roman Catholicism epitomizes the second. Among religious beliefs that are labeled “Christian” are countless ideas that involve reckless faith of one variety or the other—and often a mixture of tendencies from both extremes. Note that at both poles reckless faith seeks spiritual truth apart from Scripture—and that is the very point at which it becomes reckless. Both kinds of reckless faith