How did Augustine explain the relation between reason and faith?
How did Augustine explain the relation between reason and faith? Reason is necessary to decide which authority ought to be believed. Like Augustine, he believed that reason alone was incomplete. Faith comes after reason and then faith allows reason to grow. Faith enables a believer to understand further truths that could not be discovered through reason alone. Did Augustine believe in reason? Furthermore, while Augustine had no doubt that reason availed for apprehension of God's existence or that natural theology afforded knowledge, he was nevertheless convinced that, unguided by faith, it did equally afford mis-knowledge. He was not so much...