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The Real Francis Turretin on Faith and Reason
The question is not whether reason is the instrument by which or the medium through which we can be drawn to faith. For we acknowledge that reason can be both: the former indeed always and everywhere; the later with regard to presupposed articles. Rather the question is whether it is the first principle from which…
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The Real Francis Turretin on Faith and Reason
He does not therefore mean to take away reason entirely because grace does not destroy, but perfects nature. He only wishes it to serve and be a handmaid to faith and as such to obey, not to govern its mistress; that it may be in subjection and not entirely discarded, that it may be not…
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The Real Turretin on: The Relation of Faith and Reason
Dan Borvan at Geneva Redux has an interesting quotation (actually two) from Turretin on the relation of Faith and Reason (part 1)(part 2). As Turretin correctly points out that we do not make reason our first principle such that we deny what natural light and reason cannot comprehend, although we do permit reason to serve…