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Faith in the Incarnation requires suspension of reason — Carmelics

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Faith in the Incarnation requires suspension of reason

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1.Faith in the Incarnation means believing in something higher than reason
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2.Believing in something higher than reason requires suspending reason rather than relying on it
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1.Aquinas argues faith and reason operate in complementary domains, with reason preparing the intellect for revealed truths beyond its scope.
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2.The Incarnation being 'above reason' does not entail contradiction with reason, only transcendence of it, making suspension unnecessary.
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1.Hegel contends that the Incarnation is the rational self-externalization of Absolute Spirit, making it comprehensible through speculative reason.
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2.If the Incarnation has an internal rational structure, then faith directed at it engages reason rather than suspending it.
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Christian dogma, according to Kierkegaard, embodies paradoxes which are offensive to reason. The central paradox is the assertion that the eternal, infinite, transcendent God simultaneously became incarnated as a temporal, finite, human being (Jesus). There are two possible attitudes we can adopt to this assertion, viz. we can have faith, or we can take offense. What we cannot do, according to Kierkegaard, is believe by virtue of reason. If we choose faith we must suspend our reason in order to

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