Reasons to Believe by Scott Hahn

  • Ch. 1: As St. Peter said, we have a responsibility to develop our ability to defend our faith with reason.
  • Ch. 2:
    • Faith and reason are both important for living our lives like two wings of a bird/plane, interdependent in the way of spouses (Faith and Reason, JP2).
    • Science requires faith in order for it to function properly.
    • Logic:
    • Principle of Non-contradiction
    • General reliability of sense perception
    • Principle of causality
    • Notion of self-consciousness
  • "The attractive power of the Catholic faith is the way it all hangs together: the natural, the biblical, and the theological. It's integrated, just as all that has come from God is recognizable as His own" (137).