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Faith and reason

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• Faith and reason -- Christianity
• Faith and reason -- Early works to 1800
• Faith and reason -- History of doctrines
• Faith and reason -- Islam
• Faith and reason -- Judaism

• Faith and logic
• Logic and faith
• Reason and faith
• Reason and religion
• Reason -- Religious aspects
• Religion and reason
• Faith and rationality

• The Certainty of Faith (St. Catharines, ON: Paideia Press, c1980), by Herman Bavinck, trans. by Harry der Nederlanden (page images at ptsem.edu)
• Correspondance d'un Sceptique et d'un Croyant (published anonymously but attributed in some contemporary reviews; in French; Geneva et al.: H. Georg, 1881), by Gustave de Bonstetten and Ernest Naville
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• The reactions between dogma & philosophy illustrated from the works of S. Thomas Aquinas : lectures delivered in London and Oxford October-December 1916 (AMS Press, 1980), by Philip H. Wicksteed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religion, reason, and revelation. (Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1961), by Gordon H. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• The foundations of belief : being notes introductory to the study of theology (Longmans, Green, 1895), by Arthur James Balfour (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reason and faith, and other miscellanies of Henry Rogers (Crosby, Nichols, and Co., 1853), by Henry Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Armonia de la razon y de la religion; ó, Teología natural (En la Impr. de la Rifa del Real Estudio de Medicina Práctica, 1798), by Theodoro de Almeida (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essay on the application of abstract reasoning to the Christian doctrines (Crocker and Brewster;, 1832), by Isaac Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The evidence and authority of the Christian revelation. (M. Newman; Flagg & Gould, printers., 1818), by Thomas Chalmers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The philosophy of the human mind in respect to religion, or, A demonstration from the necessity of things that religion entered the world by revelation : also, an inquiry into the production, nature, and effects of the Christian faith ... the detection of long standing errors, &c., and the necessary dependence of the American republics upon the Christian religion ... (Printed by Thomas T. Skillman, 1813), by James Fishback (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alnetanae quaestiones de concordia rationis et fidei (Excudebat Nicolaus Pezzana, 1761), by Pierre-Daniel Huet and Stephanus A Puteo (page images at HathiTrust)
• The reactions between dogma & philosophy illustrated from the works of S. Thomas Aquinas; lectures delivered in London and Oxford, October-December 1916 (Williams and Norgate, 1920), by Philip H. Wicksteed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les croyances de demain. (F. Alcan, 1898), by Lucien Arréat (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'inquiétude religieuse du temps présent. (Fischbacher, 1913), by Paul Stapfer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The open light; an enquiry into faith and reality. (Headley Bros., 1919), by Nathaniel Micklem (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Glaubensgewissheit : eine Untersuchung über die Lebensfrage der Religion (J. C. Hinrichs, 1920), by Karl Heim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Conscience and criticism (Duckworth, 1909), by Geoffrey Hughes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Verhältnis von Glauben und Wissen bei den bedeutendsten jüdischen Religionsphilosophen bis Maimonides (A. Favorke, 1905), by Curt Tirschtigel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Through agnostic spectacles (Truth Seeker Co., 1919), by Alexander Kadison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theologia pectoris : outlines of religious faith and doctrine, founded on intuition and experience (T. & T. Clark, 1898), by J. M. Hodgson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chto razumni︠e︡e : vi︠e︡ra ili nevi︠e︡rīe? : publichnyi︠a︡ chtenīi︠a︡ o nevi︠e︡rīi, preimushchestvenno sovremennom... (V tip. D-ta Udi︠e︡lov, 1864), by Andreĭ Ivanovich Predtechenskīĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
• The evidence and authority of the Christian revelation (Anthony Finley, 1817), by Thomas Chalmers (page images at HathiTrust)
• La raison et le Christianisme ; douze lectures sur l'existence de Dieu (Librairie de Ls Meyer, 1863), by Charles Secrétan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Man and the universe : a study of the influence of the advance in scientific knowledge upon our understanding of Christianity (Methuen, 1908), by Oliver Lodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reason and revelation (Catholic Publication House, 1868), by T. S. Preston (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on religion and christianity, orthodoxy and rationalism : an appeal to the common-sense of all who like truth better than error (B. H. Greene, 1847), by Friedrich Münch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le positivisme chrétien. (Bloud et Barral, 1901), by André Godard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Oswald, der Greis, oder, Mein Letzter Glaube : als Nachlas zugleich für meine Freunde (Gerhard Fleischer, 1813), by Christian Friedrich Sintenis (page images at HathiTrust)
• La civilisation et la croyance (F. Payot, 1887), by Charles Secrétan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philosophie und Christenthum, oder, Wissen und Glauben (Schwan und Götz, 1833), by Isaak Rust (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Apologetik des Christenthums als Wissenschaft (Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1824), by Karl Wilhelm Stein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches philosophiques sur l'emploi de la raison en matière de foi (Ab. Cherbuliez, 1836), by Louis Pouzait (page images at HathiTrust)
• The province of reason a criticism of the Bampton lecture on "The limits of religious thought" (Robert Carter, 1860), by John Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discursos leídos ante la Real Academia Sevillana de Buenas Letras por los señores don Pedro López Sánchez y don Francisco Pagés del Corro, académico preeminente, en la recepción pública del primero como académico numerario, celebrada en 29 de noviembre de 1874 (Imp. y Lib. de A. Izquierdo y Sobrino, 1874), by Pedro López Sánchez, Francisco Pagés del Corro, and Real Academia Sevillana de Buenas Letras (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Unterschiede zwischen der bloss rationellen und der katholischen Schriftauslegung : in Briefen an einen älteren gelehrten Freund auseinandergesetzt (Cajetan Haslinger, 1816), by Michael Arneth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dignité de la raison humaine et nécessité de la révélation divine. (J. Leroux et Jouby, 1856), by Henri-Louis-Charles Maret (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reason and faith : with other essays (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1866), by Henry Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• An appeal to the serious and candid professors of Christianity : on the following topics, viz., I. The use of reason in matters of religion. II. The power of man to do the will of God. III. Original sin. IV. Election and reprobation. V. The dignity of Christ. VI. Atonement for sin by the death of Christ. VII. A concise history of the rise of those doctrines (R. Taylor, 1827), by Joseph Priestley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches de la méthode : qui conduit a la vérité sur nos plus grands intérêts ; avec quelques applications et quelques exemples. (C. Leidecker, 1857), by Charles Secrétan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oswald, der Greis, oder, Mein letzter Glaube : als Nachlas zugleich für meine Freunde (Gerhard Fleischer, 1815), by Christian Friedrich Sintenis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catholicity spiritual and intellectual : an attempt at vindicating the harmony of faith and knowledge, a series of discourses (John Chapman, 1850), by Thomas Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bible and men of learning : in a course of lectures (Anson D. F. Randolph, 1860), by J. M. Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'Affaiblissement de la raison et de la décadence en Europe (L. Hervé, 1854), by Antoine Joseph Elisée Adolphe Blanc de Saint-Bonnet (page images at HathiTrust)
• La civilisation et la croyance. (F. Payot, 1893), by Charles Secrétan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les splendeurs de la foi; accord parfait de la rélévation et de la science de la foi et de la raison. (Blériot freres, 1881), by abbé Moigno (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stwórca i stworzenie : wobec rozumu i wiary (Nakł. Autora, 1892), by Antonin Trznadel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reason to revelation (Alliance Press, 1900), by Philip Mauro (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• To the clergy, religious orders and laity of the diocese, health and benediction in the Lord (s.n., 1894), by Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Halifax. Archbishop (1882-1906 : O' Brien) and Cornelius O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)
• The potter's wheel (F.H. Revell, 1897), by Ian Maclaren (page images at HathiTrust)
• La foi et la raison en elles-mêmes et dans leurs rapports (s.n.], 1890), by Louis Adolphe Paquet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Verhältnis von Glauben und Wissen bei den bedeutendsten jüdischen Religionsphilosophen bis Maimonides (Koebner, 1905), by Curt Tirschtigel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kants Stellung in der Geschichte des Conflicts zwischen Glauben und Wissen. Eine Studie. (Weidmann, 1882), by Ernst Laas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tro og viden : en overveielse (H. Aschehoug & Co., 1892), by Marcus Jacob Monrad (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fides implicita : eine Untersuchung über Köhlerglauben, Wissen und Glauben, Glauben und Kirche (Adolph Marcus, 1890), by Albrecht Ritschl and Otto Ritschl (page images at HathiTrust)
• 12 forelæsninger over tro og tænkning. (Aschehoug, 1896), by E. F. B. Horn (page images at HathiTrust)
• La foi catholique dans ses relations avec la raison et la volonté; conférences données à l'Université Laval à Montréal le 19 janvier et le 2 fevrier 1898. (Arbour & Laperle, Imprimeurs-relieurs, 1897), by Elie-J. Auclair (page images at HathiTrust)
• Za resnico : osemnajst obrambnih govorov : v stolni cerkvi sv. Nikolaja v Ljubljani (K.T.D.H. Nićman, 1921), by Mihael Opeka (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A knowledge of history is conductive to racial solidarity and other writings (Sunday School Union Print, 1911), by C. V. Roman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The knowledge of divine things from revelation, not from reason or nature : with an inquiry whence cometh wisdom and understanding to man (Thomas Tegg, 1837), by John Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dios ante la razón (Impr. "El Siglo Ilustrado,", 1903), by Ambrosio L. Ramasso (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Faith and reason (Christopher Pub. House, 1962), by J. Deotis Roberts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An inquiry into faith : a statement for the college mind (National Methodist Student Movement, 1960), by J. Wesley Robb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Logique. (C. Douniol, 1855), by Alphonse Gratry and A. Gratry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Doubt, or, Practical suggestions for those having intellectual difficulties regarding the Christian faith (Association Press, 1916), by Sherwood Eddy (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'évangile de la raison : ouvrage posthume ([Paris?] : [publisher not identified] ; se trouve chez tous les imprimeurs et libraires, an 10 [1801 or 1802], 1801), by M. de Fontenelle, Jean Baptiste de Mirabaud, Dumarsais, Voltaire, Jean Meslier, and Henri-Joseph Du Laurens (page images at HathiTrust)
• A defence of the superstitions of science : delivered before Vanderbilt University, June 15th, 1866 (Wilbur B. Ketcham, 1886), by Charles F. Deems and Vanderbilt University (page images at HathiTrust)
• Faith and folly (London : Burns, Oates & Washbourne, 1927., 1927), by John S. Vaughan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The age of revelation : or the age of reason shewn to be an age of infidelity (Philadelphia : Asbury Dickins, 1801., 1801), by Elias Boudinot and Elias Boudinot Library Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Account of reason & faith : in relation to the mysteries of Christianity. (London : Printed for Edmund Parker, 1728., 1827), by John Norris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The nature and immortality of the soul proved in answer to one who professed perplexing doubtfulness / by Richard Baxter. (London : Printed for B. Simmons ..., 1682), by Richard Baxter (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The excellency of theology compar'd with natural philosophy (as both are objects of men's study) / discours'd of in a letter to a friend by T.H.R.B.E. ... ; to which are annex'd some occasional thouhts about the excellency and grounds of the mechanical hypothesis / by the same author. (London : Printed by T.N. for Henry Herringman ..., 1674), by Robert Boyle (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A short discourse upon the reasonableness of men's having a religion, or worship of God by His Grace, George, Duke of Buckingham. (London : Printed by John Leake, for Luke Meredith ..., 1685), by George Villiers Buckingham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The incomprehensibleness of imputed righteousness, for justification, by humane reason, till enlightned by the spirit of God preached in two sermons at the Merchants-Lecture in Broadstreet / by Thomas Cole. (London : Printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1692), by Thomas Cole (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An account of reason & faith in relation to the mysteries of Christianity / by John Norris. (London : Printed for S. Manship ..., 1697), by John Norris (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A discourse of the use of reason in matters of religion shewing that Christianity contains nothing repugnant to right reason, against enthusiasts and deists / written in Latin by the Reverend Dr. Rust ; and translated into English, with annotations upon it by Hen. Hallywell. (London : Printed by Hen. Hills, Jun. for Water Kettilby, 1683), by George Rust and Henry Hallywell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Catholicks resolution, or, A serious enquiry whether it be better to turn Independent, Presbyterian, Romane? or continue what I am, Catholick? in matter of religion. (London : [s.n.], Printed Anno Dom. 1668) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reason regulate[d], or, Brief reflections upon a l[ate] treatise of human-reason by T.P. ([London? : s.n.], 1675), by T. P. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A letter to a friend, shewing the vanity of this opinion that every mans sense and reason is to guide him in matters of faith. ([Dublin? : s.n., 1688]), by Peter Manby (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A discourse about Christ and antichrist, or, A demonstration that Jesus is the Christ from the truth of his predictions, especially, the coming and the seduction of antichrist : to which is added a treatise about the resurrection / by Edward Bagshaw ... (London : Printed for Simon Miller ..., 1661), by Edward Bagshaw (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Man in paradise, or, A philosophical discourse vindicating the soul's prerogative in discerning the truths of Christian religion with the eye of reason (Printed at London : By James Cottrel, [1656]), by Richard Bunworth (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The atheist turn'd deist and the deist turn'd Christian, or, The reasonableness and union of natural and the true Christian religion by Tho. Emes. (London : [s.n.], 1698), by Thomas Emes (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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