Rationality and Religion: Does Faith Need Reason?

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Summary: Interesting stuff, but...
Review: While this book deals capably with the issues surrounding the relationship between reason and faith, there are several problems that prevent it from being a decisive work. Among them are Trigg's evident predisposition: he is determined to work within the confines of Christianity; while he says this is because it is familiar, it also seems that he works too hard at maintaining Christian belief in the face of his own arguments. This seems to weaken his position overall. Also, Trigg tends to assume too much about his reader, perhaps because the book is based on lectures delivered to people who, Trigg could reasonably assume, would understand every reference he makes to other philosophers. Overall, an intriguing book, but definitely not first-rate, and certainly not the sort of thing that works well in a classroom setting--we tried to use this in a class at college and it flopped.