A Reasonable Belief Quotes

“In sum, a centuries-long, surreptitious shift in conceptual frameworks has created a predominant form of reason in the modern West that sets up a disastrous either/or: either faith in God by virtue of an affirmation that reaches beyond the evidence (and therefore irrationality) or reasonable belief in a God whose existence we have demonstrated (and thereby idolatry). This disastrous either/or is not the result of any particular argument. It is the result of a long-term, largely hidden shift in Western conceptual frameworks that elides the possibility of speaking meaningfully about faith.”
― William Greenway, A Reasonable Belief: Why God and Faith Make Sense

“That is, if any proof for the existence of God were successful we would be dealing with a God who is the conclusion of a human argument, a God who is a valid inference of human reason, a God who is known reasonably only insofar as that God is within the grasp of human reason. According to Judaism, Christianity and all the rest of the world’s classic theistic faith traditions, any such god, any god drawn by human reason, would be a graven image, an idol.”
― William Greenway, A Reasonable Belief: Why God and Faith Make Sense

“I am joining in the process of purging layers of dross from modern Western rationality, a process that in elite philosophical circles has led to the “theological turn.” I argue that this process is giving birth to a restored, spiritually attuned rationality, an awakened rationality that facilitates the unfolding of a philosophical spirituality.”
― William Greenway, A Reasonable Belief: Why God and Faith Make Sense