God and Faith

Can reason reach God, or only faith? These books argue it out from every side: the believer's confession, the proof, the mystic's certainty, the skeptic's challenge, and the leap.

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   ConfessionsAugustine · 8 hrs · ▶ ListenA life turned toward God: our heart is restless until it rests in you.
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   ProslogionAnselm of Canterbury · 1 hr · ▶ ListenThe ontological argument: that than which nothing greater can be thought.
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   Deliverance from Erroral-Ghazālī · 1.5 hrs · ▶ ListenA philosopher's crisis of doubt, resolved by mystical experience.
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   The Decisive TreatiseAverroes · 50 min · ▶ ListenDoes religious law permit philosophy? Averroes says it commands it.
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   PenséesBlaise Pascal · 8 hrs · ▶ ListenThe wager, and the heart's reasons that reason does not know.
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   Dialogues Concerning Natural ReligionDavid Hume · 3 hrs · ▶ ListenThe argument from design, taken apart.
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   Fear and TremblingSøren Kierkegaard · 3 hrs · ▶ ListenAbraham and Isaac: faith as a leap beyond ethics.
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   The Idea of the HolyRudolf Otto · 5 hrs · ▶ ListenThe numinous: what religion feels like from the inside.